wordly

Driven by "wordly" - curiosity (etymology), in reference to the word "speculator," - I found the word "speculum" - (the device used to widen a patient's anus so a proctologist can have a look around in a usually private area), and the word "speculator" - have the same Latin root word specere, to look at or to view.

The Free Market; or Forever Blowing Bubbles 2008

Among the lay people the world ceaseth not to bring to pass, that as they be called wordly, so they are wordly indeed; driven headlong by worldly desires: insomuch that they may right well seem to have taken as well the manners as the name of their father.

Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858

In Updike's case this also entails chronicling the journey from small-town America and its assumptions to those of the more "wordly" suburbs and cities.

Updike, John 2010

Fiesta is much more "wordly", but both have consistently excellent produce.

Looking for Love Dip | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

'Seems to be a more "wordly" theme to Mr. Clinton's speech about Obama than those used in Bush's for McCain.

Real Blogging 2008

That got me started thinking about monsters and escorting people in an old other-wordly-tube system.

Transfuzion’s Ferrymen Expanded From Rising Stars of Manga Story » Comics Worth Reading 2010

But it was not an unkind portrait: Brooks understood the "bourgeois bohemians" as giving expression to contradictory but quintessentially American yearnings for freedom and community, wordly success and spiritual transcendence, sensual pleasure and self-denial.

The Social Animal by David Brooks – review 2011

Maybe Elizabeth wants to be practicle and other-wordly about it.

Why are some politicians forgiven in sex scandals? 2009

For those of you commenting in a negative way, you obviously are not wordly, do not travel and only read the headlines of Fox News.

Clinton: Obama has proven his toughness, international savvy 2009

PS “Specialized Crime Fighter” is supposed to be wordly and overly technical.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Becca’s Review Forum 2009