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Definition of Sublunary

1. Adjective. Situated between the earth and the moon.

2. Adjective. Of this earth. "The nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball"

Definition of Sublunary

1. n. Any worldly thing.

Definition of Sublunary

1. Adjective. Situated between the earth and the moon; sublunar or cislunar. ¹

2. Adjective. Of this world (as opposed to heaven etc.); earthly, terrestrial. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sublunary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sublunary

subliterature subliteratures sublittoral sublittorals sublobular sublogarithmic sublogic sublogics sublot sublots

sublumbar sublumic subluminal subluminous sublunar sublunary (current term) sublunary sphere subluxate subluxated subluxation

subluxations sublytic submachine submachine gun submachine guns submachines submagic submammary subman submanager

Literary usage of Sublunary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"All sublunary Things are contemptible, and of no Valve. THE things of this world, though their vanity, which swells and blows them up, seems to extend and ..."

2. Scholasticism Old and New: An Introduction to Scholastic Philosophy by Maurice Wulf (1907)
"... of special physics: physical and mechanical astronomy ; the theory of sublunary matter ; and the action of the heavens upon terrestrial substances. 78. ..."

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