sublunary
[adjective]
Synonyms: earthly, earthy, mundane, tellurian, telluric, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial, worldly

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sublunary adjective & noun. [sʌb'lu:n(ǝ)ri] L16.
[formed as SUBLUNAR: see -ARY². Cf. SUPERLUNARY, TRANSLUNARY.]
A. adjective.
1. Of or pertaining to this world; earthly, terrestrial. L16.
■ T. Hardy Climbing higher..and cutting himself off..from all intercourse with the sublunary world.
b. Of or pertaining to worldly affairs; material; temporal. M17.
■ A. West Mother's accounts..are expressive of her states of feeling rather than descriptions of actual sublunary occurrences.

2. Existing or situated beneath the moon; within the moon's orbit; subject to the moon's influence. E17.
■ D. Cupitt Beyond the atmosphere..a..sphere, filling out the rest of the sublunary realm.
b. Inferior, subordinate. E-M17.
b. noun.
1. A sublunary person or thing. Usu. in pl. M17-M18.

2. That which is sublunary. M20.
■ C. S. Lewis Aristotle's Nature..covers only the sublunary.

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