a priori vs unearthly

a priori

adj
  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

unearthly

adj
  • Ideal beyond the mundane. 

  • Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous. 

  • Preternatural or supernatural. 

  • Strange, enigmatic, or mysterious. 

  • Not of the earth; non-terrestrial. 

How often have the words a priori and unearthly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )