subcelestialadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbsəˈlɛstɪəl/, U.S.

/ˌsəbsəˈlɛstʃəl/,

/ˌsəbsəˈlɛsdiəl/

Forms: see sub- prefix and celestial adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, celestial adj.

Etymology: < sub- prefix + celestial adj. Compare post-classical Latin subcaelestis (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources), Middle French soubzceleste (1485).

A. adj.

a. Existing below or beneath a heavenly or ethereal realm; material (as opposed to ethereal). Now rare or historical.Frequently in relation to cosmological or theological hierarchies.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [adjective]

earthya1398

subcelestial1561

terrestrial1597

sublunary1609

beneatha1616

terrene1635

subsidereal1636

under-celestial1640

subsolar1648

subsolary1661

planetary1831

earthside1951

Terran1953

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective]

worldlyOE

dryc1175

fleshlyc1175

of the world?c1225

secularc1290

timely1340

of hencec1384

uttermore1395

worldisha1400

profane1474

humanc1475

mundanec1475

mundial1499

carnal?1510

seculary1520

unghostly1526

worldly-minded1528

sensual1529

earthly-minded1535

civil1536

subcelestial1561

worldly-witted1563

secular-minded1597

ghostlessa1603

lay1609

mundal1614

non-ecclesiastical1630

unspiritual1643

wilderness1651

worldly-handed1657

outward1674

timesome1674

apsychical1678

secularized1683

hylastic1684

choical1708

Sadducee1746

gay1798

unspiritualized1816

secularizing1825

unreligious1832

secularistic1862

apneumatic1864

Sadduceeic1875

this-worldly1883

this world1889

1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. v. sig. A vii^v The Emperial heauen..conteyneth three..Hierarchias,..the fyrste..called supercelestiall... The second is called Celestiall... The thyrde called Subcelestiall, conteyneth Virtutes, Archangels, and Angels.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie i. iv. 40 All subcœlestiall bodies..consist of matter and forme.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. G. J. Vossius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 497 The Dii consentes, were understood by Apuleius neither to be celestial nor subcelestial bodies, but a certain higher nature perceptible only to our minds.

1858 W. Dalton Eng. Boy Japan v. 48 He could tell his countrymen so much, that for ever after foreigners would not only be admitted but implored to visit the sub-celestial kingdom of the sun goddess.

1921 Relig. Educ. 16 27 Much of what is written about childhood religion was written by one caught up even to the third heaven, and therefore excusably forgetful of realities in this sub-celestial realm of ours.

2000 Renaissance Q. 53 888 We have a decidedly pre-Galilean Ficino..reproving poets for suggesting that things familiar to us in the subcelestial realm could be attributed to supercelestial entities.

b. In weakened sense: earthly, mundane, inferior. Cf. sublunary adj. 3. Now rare (chiefly archaic and poetic).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > [adjective]

earthlyOE

netherOE

lowc1225

terrene13..

terrestre1340

temporalc1380

earthyc1429

terrestrialc1460

inferial?a1475

mundanec1475

mundial1499

earthish?1533

terrenala1555

terreal1598

terrestrene1599

sublunary1609

sublunar1610

mundal1614

temporarya1616

earth-born1626

terranean1653

circumterraneous1678

subcelestial1706

terraneousa1711

terrean1714

terrigenal1744

subastral1752

geotic1755

tellurian1786

worldly1812

telluric1813

transglobal1953

1706 H. Dodwell Epistolary Disc. p. xxiv The effect of their fall into this subcœlestial district had only been, that they would have been liable to the vanity, the corruption, the mortality of the place.

1766 E. Carter Let. 28 June in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) II. 35 Whether Mrs. Montagu may not be delighting herself with a tour through the coal mines, and have lost all remembrance of her subcelestial friends.

1823 London Mag. July 39/1 As a three-decker, or a tight frigate, you might, by a fortunate concurrence of circumstances, be lifted on even to the utmost period..of sub-celestial immortality.

1951 Russ. Rev. 10 149 My convoy turned me over to a gloomy warden who, with much jangling of keys, opened the door of this subcelestial prison before me and shouted: ‘Starosta! Number 195!’

2. Astronomy. Situated or occurring beneath the celestial sphere, spec. on the earth directly beneath the zenith.

ΚΠ

1903 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. 29 954 Take A to be the sub-celestial place of a celestial body whose declination is equal to the latitude of A.

1918 G. Bradford Whys & Wherefores Navigation ix. 122 When the body's altitude begins to approach the zenith, or, what is the same thing, when the ship is getting close to the body's sub-celestial position.

2010 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Aug. 32 They..modulated a telescope mirror to eliminate..sub-celestial twinkle.

B. n.

†1. A subcelestial region; an earthly sphere. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun]

liftOE

heavenOE

wheelc1175

welkina1325

spherec1374

elementc1384

firmamentc1386

roundnessa1398

movablec1400

orbc1449

concavity1483

concameration1625

subcelestial1644

orbit1727

1644 W. Lilly Englands Propheticall Merline 101 Nuntius Propheticus, 35. fol.... Fateor super-cælestia maxime in hæc sub-cælestia agere: I confesse the heavenly bodies have much to do upon our sub-celestiall.

1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature viii. 364 The Cœlestial Part of the World does so far exceed the Sub-Cœlestial in Vastness, that there is scarce any Comparison between them.

2. A subcelestial entity or being. Also (with the): such beings collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > that which is created

creaturec1300

making1340

feature1483

facturea1500

sublunar1613

sublunary1625

subcelestial1652

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila sig. A4 Sub-cœlestials, or Sublunaries have their Assignment in the lowest Portion of the Universe.

1708 H. Dodwell Nat. Mortality Humane Souls 61 Speaking of the Difference between the Cœlestials and Subcœlestials, he makes their Life to be a Death to us, and our Life to be a Death to them.

1724 J. Maubray tr. Aristotle in Female Physician i. viii. 27 As this inferior world hath existence from superior Beings, so all worldly existences must necessarily be bordered and directed by those, as the common efficient cause of all sub-celestials.

1818 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XII. 598 The sub-celestial, namely, Madjeratja..kept the region of the air nearest the sun, and procreated all things.

1913 E. Phillpotts Joy of Youth xix. 178 Granted these greater brothers and sisters of humanity and the others—those sub-celestials with human blood in their veins—then you get the whole splendid pageant of Greek and Latin mythology—rich for moralists and artists and everybody.

2005 Telegram & Gaz. (Mass.) (Nexis) 16 Dec. c1 Still, while the stars could layer on the lip rouge with impunity, for the subcelestial there was still some stigma attached to the golden tubes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	subcelestial
释义	subcelestialadj.n. Brit. /ˌsʌbsəˈlɛstɪəl/, U.S. /ˌsəbsəˈlɛstʃəl/, /ˌsəbsəˈlɛsdiəl/ Forms: see sub- prefix and celestial adj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, celestial adj. Etymology: < sub- prefix + celestial adj. Compare post-classical Latin subcaelestis (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources), Middle French soubzceleste (1485). A. adj. 1. a. Existing below or beneath a heavenly or ethereal realm; material (as opposed to ethereal). Now rare or historical.Frequently in relation to cosmological or theological hierarchies. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [adjective] earthya1398 subcelestial1561 terrestrial1597 sublunary1609 beneatha1616 terrene1635 subsidereal1636 under-celestial1640 subsolar1648 subsolary1661 planetary1831 earthside1951 Terran1953 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective] worldlyOE dryc1175 fleshlyc1175 of the world?c1225 secularc1290 timely1340 of hencec1384 uttermore1395 worldisha1400 profane1474 humanc1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 carnal?1510 seculary1520 unghostly1526 worldly-minded1528 sensual1529 earthly-minded1535 civil1536 subcelestial1561 worldly-witted1563 secular-minded1597 ghostlessa1603 lay1609 mundal1614 non-ecclesiastical1630 unspiritual1643 wilderness1651 worldly-handed1657 outward1674 timesome1674 apsychical1678 secularized1683 hylastic1684 choical1708 Sadducee1746 gay1798 unspiritualized1816 secularizing1825 unreligious1832 secularistic1862 apneumatic1864 Sadduceeic1875 this-worldly1883 this world1889 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. v. sig. A vii^v The Emperial heauen..conteyneth three..Hierarchias,..the fyrste..called supercelestiall... The second is called Celestiall... The thyrde called Subcelestiall, conteyneth Virtutes, Archangels, and Angels. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie i. iv. 40 All subcœlestiall bodies..consist of matter and forme. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. G. J. Vossius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 497 The Dii consentes, were understood by Apuleius neither to be celestial nor subcelestial bodies, but a certain higher nature perceptible only to our minds. 1858 W. Dalton Eng. Boy Japan v. 48 He could tell his countrymen so much, that for ever after foreigners would not only be admitted but implored to visit the sub-celestial kingdom of the sun goddess. 1921 Relig. Educ. 16 27 Much of what is written about childhood religion was written by one caught up even to the third heaven, and therefore excusably forgetful of realities in this sub-celestial realm of ours. 2000 Renaissance Q. 53 888 We have a decidedly pre-Galilean Ficino..reproving poets for suggesting that things familiar to us in the subcelestial realm could be attributed to supercelestial entities. b. In weakened sense: earthly, mundane, inferior. Cf. sublunary adj. 3. Now rare (chiefly archaic and poetic). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [adjective] earthlyOE netherOE lowc1225 terrene13.. terrestre1340 temporalc1380 earthyc1429 terrestrialc1460 inferial?a1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 earthish?1533 terrenala1555 terreal1598 terrestrene1599 sublunary1609 sublunar1610 mundal1614 temporarya1616 earth-born1626 terranean1653 circumterraneous1678 subcelestial1706 terraneousa1711 terrean1714 terrigenal1744 subastral1752 geotic1755 tellurian1786 worldly1812 telluric1813 transglobal1953 1706 H. Dodwell Epistolary Disc. p. xxiv The effect of their fall into this subcœlestial district had only been, that they would have been liable to the vanity, the corruption, the mortality of the place. 1766 E. Carter Let. 28 June in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) II. 35 Whether Mrs. Montagu may not be delighting herself with a tour through the coal mines, and have lost all remembrance of her subcelestial friends. 1823 London Mag. July 39/1 As a three-decker, or a tight frigate, you might, by a fortunate concurrence of circumstances, be lifted on even to the utmost period..of sub-celestial immortality. 1951 Russ. Rev. 10 149 My convoy turned me over to a gloomy warden who, with much jangling of keys, opened the door of this subcelestial prison before me and shouted: ‘Starosta! Number 195!’ 2. Astronomy. Situated or occurring beneath the celestial sphere, spec. on the earth directly beneath the zenith. ΚΠ 1903 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. 29 954 Take A to be the sub-celestial place of a celestial body whose declination is equal to the latitude of A. 1918 G. Bradford Whys & Wherefores Navigation ix. 122 When the body's altitude begins to approach the zenith, or, what is the same thing, when the ship is getting close to the body's sub-celestial position. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Aug. 32 They..modulated a telescope mirror to eliminate..sub-celestial twinkle. B. n. †1. A subcelestial region; an earthly sphere. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] liftOE heavenOE wheelc1175 welkina1325 spherec1374 elementc1384 firmamentc1386 roundnessa1398 movablec1400 orbc1449 concavity1483 concameration1625 subcelestial1644 orbit1727 1644 W. Lilly Englands Propheticall Merline 101 Nuntius Propheticus, 35. fol.... Fateor super-cælestia maxime in hæc sub-cælestia agere: I confesse the heavenly bodies have much to do upon our sub-celestiall. 1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature viii. 364 The Cœlestial Part of the World does so far exceed the Sub-Cœlestial in Vastness, that there is scarce any Comparison between them. 2. A subcelestial entity or being. Also (with the): such beings collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > that which is created creaturec1300 making1340 feature1483 facturea1500 sublunar1613 sublunary1625 subcelestial1652 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila sig. A4 Sub-cœlestials, or Sublunaries have their Assignment in the lowest Portion of the Universe. 1708 H. Dodwell Nat. Mortality Humane Souls 61 Speaking of the Difference between the Cœlestials and Subcœlestials, he makes their Life to be a Death to us, and our Life to be a Death to them. 1724 J. Maubray tr. Aristotle in Female Physician i. viii. 27 As this inferior world hath existence from superior Beings, so all worldly existences must necessarily be bordered and directed by those, as the common efficient cause of all sub-celestials. 1818 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XII. 598 The sub-celestial, namely, Madjeratja..kept the region of the air nearest the sun, and procreated all things. 1913 E. Phillpotts Joy of Youth xix. 178 Granted these greater brothers and sisters of humanity and the others—those sub-celestials with human blood in their veins—then you get the whole splendid pageant of Greek and Latin mythology—rich for moralists and artists and everybody. 2005 Telegram & Gaz. (Mass.) (Nexis) 16 Dec. c1 Still, while the stars could layer on the lip rouge with impunity, for the subcelestial there was still some stigma attached to the golden tubes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1561
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