sublunary
Americanadjective
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situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
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characteristic of or pertaining to the earth; terrestrial.
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mundane or worldly.
fleeting, sublunary pleasure.
adjective
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situated between the moon and the earth
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of or relating to the earth or world
Etymology
Origin of sublunary
1585–95; < Late Latin sublūn ( āris ) ( sub-, lunar ) + -ary
Example Sentences
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Few sublunary powers are, after all, as attainable as an expertise in words; or as a peruser of the Collegiate might put it, it’s a major flex.
“Among other things, many ignored the reality that millions of African Americans were quite pleased with the decidedly sublunary consolations of equal protection under the law.”
From Washington Post
Astronomy, though, was a peculiar discipline because it accepted unquestioningly the Aristotelian distinction between the sublunary and supralunary worlds.
From Literature
He is scrupulously genial and polite, and happy to talk about theories of spacetime, but extremely reluctant to say anything on the record about the book’s more sublunary themes and ideas.
From The Guardian
But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.
From New York Times
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