Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated beneath the moon.
- adjective Of this world; earthly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated beneath the moon.
- Hence Pertaining to this world; terrestrial; mundane; earthly; worldly: as, sublunary affairs.
- noun Any worldly thing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Any worldly thing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Situated between the
earth and themoon ;sublunar orcislunar . - adjective Of this
world (as opposed to heaven etc.);earthly ,terrestrial . - noun obsolete Any
worldly thing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective situated between the earth and the moon
- adjective of this earth
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the third verse whams in with "another country", namely heaven – thus not only annoying those of other religions and none, but implying that sublunary patriotism may be subject to overrule by the man upstairs.
So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse? 2011
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'ALLOWING for the imperfect state of sublunary happiness, which is comparative at best, there are not, perhaps, many nations existing whose situation is so desirable; where the means of subsistence are so easy, and the wants of the people so few … The evident distinction of ranks, which subsists at Otaheite, does not so materially affect the felicity of the nation as we might have supposed.
Letter 63 2009
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And us sublunary types can look up at her, and her dark quiet seas, and in moments pass again into our purer minds.
Bonus Music Video: Sea of Tranquillity by Luke Powers - NASA Watch 2009
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The mahatma of the title, is helping Jack and Charley learn about their prospective brides (each is courting the other's sister) by offering to "tear your astral form from its sublunary habitation and send it gasping through the empyrean."
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Yes, even the depths of the wintry cold, when the sun seems to mock us shivering mammals in this sublunary world, can make me smile, wonder, and fall in love again.
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'By us sublunary thy will be done ... with viands meet thy humble creatures bless.'
The Reverend D Hughes, MA, Poems on Various Subjects in English and Latin (1865) Adam Roberts 2010
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I mean more specifically the Christian doctrine of the incarnation (Hoc est enim corpus meum), along with the Christian doctrine which holds that although sublunary things pass, like men passing over Crazy Jane's body, or like progress down a road, all those temporally moving things do not vanish.
Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008
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Yes, even the depths of the wintry cold, when the sun seems to mock us shivering mammals in this sublunary world, can make me smile, wonder, and fall in love again.
White-Throated Sparrows and the Return of Old Sam Peabody 2008
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'By us sublunary thy will be done ... with viands meet thy humble creatures bless.'
Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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And us sublunary types can look up at her, and her dark quiet seas, and in moments pass again into our purer minds.
Gammerstang commented on the word sublunary
(adjective) - (1) Anything under the orb of the moon.
--Thomas Dyche's New General English Dictionary, 1740
(2) Lying between the orbit of the moon and the earth; hence, subject to the moon's influence. Belonging to this world; mundane; temporal; ephemeral.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1914
January 21, 2018