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
Hence it is absurd to speak of God as an element of the sublunar world.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
The combination of matter and form is the essential condition of sublunar existence, hence there can be no question of the soul entering or leaving the body, or of its activity apart from the body.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
