See Also: sublunary(dictionary)

sublunary (iou)



sublunary adjective & noun. L16.
[formed as SUBLUNAR: see -ARY2. Cf. SUPERLUNARY, TRANSLUNARY.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to this world; earthly, terrestrial. L16.
T. Hardy Climbing higher..and cutting himself off..from all intercourse with the sublunary world.
b. Of or pertaining to worldly affairs; material; temporal. M17.
A. West Mother's accounts..are expressive of her states of feeling rather than descriptions of actual sublunary occurrences.
Existing or situated beneath the moon; within the moon's orbit; subject to the moon's influence. E17.
D. Cupitt Beyond the atmosphere..a..sphere, filling out the rest of the sublunary realm.
b. Inferior, subordinate. E-M17.
b. noun.
A sublunary person or thing. Usu. in pl. M17-M18.
That which is sublunary. M20.
C. S. Lewis Aristotle's Nature..covers only the sublunary.