premundane en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English mundane English premundane From pre- + mundane.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Synonym of antemundane; existing before the creation of the world.
With irresistible force Feuerbach is finally driven to the realisation that the Hegelian premundane existence of the “absolute idea”, the “pre-existence of the logical categories” before the world existed, is nothing more than the fantastic survival of the belief in the existence of an extramundane creator [...]
1975, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, On Religion, page 202:the heavenly Adam, one of the premundane creations of God
1921, Eisler, Robert, Orpheus--The fisher Comparative studies in Orphic and early Christian cult symbolism, page 264:[...] having made truth transcendent we must make mind transcendent, endowing it with the ultramundane, if not premundane, life of the soul.
1922, Giovanni Gentile, Theory of Mind as Pure Act, page 143: