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transcosmic en · ADJ

Etymology

From trans- + cosmic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Across or beyond the cosmos.
    • That shriek, and Noyes’s still-unbroken snore, are the last sounds I ever heard in that morbidity-choked farmhouse beneath the black-wooded crest of haunted mountain—that focus of transcosmic horror amidst the lonely green hills and curse-muttering brooks of a spectral rustic land. 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness: