sublunary
adjective
situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
sublunar
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a variation of
sublunary.
Example Sentences
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“I will cherish this lifetime-achievement award from you, though, like all sublunar blessings, it is a mixed one,” she said.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
The space-singed A.P. waited 42 minutes, then filed a carefully sublunar story reporting that a ham operator near Columbus.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the text is cautious, the accompanying illustration is not: it shows only three sublunar spheres, of earth, air and fire.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
As pure thought the Active Intellect embraces as its content the entire sublunar world in essence.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
When in contact with the human body it partakes of the nature of other sublunar forms exhibiting its activity through matter and being inseparable from it.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
