sublunaryadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbˈluːn(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˌsəbˈlunəri/

Forms: 1600s sublunarie, 1600s– sublunary.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin Etymon: Latin sublunaris.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin sublunaris sublunar adj.; compare -ary suffix². Compare Middle French, French sublunaire (1553 or earlier). Compare earlier lunary n.¹, sublunar adj. With use as noun compare earlier sublunar n. N.E.D. (1914) also gives the pronunciation (sɒ̆blⁱū·nări) /ˈsʌbl(j)uːnərɪ/.

A. adj.

a. Existing or situated beneath the moon; lying between the orbit of the moon and the earth. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective] > beneath

sublunar1598

sublunary1601

sublunarian1858

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. iv. 123 The sunne, keeping his certaine tabernacle in the heauens..doth nourish and cherrish with his heate & brightnesse these inferiour & sublunary bodies.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 512 Patritius doth not onely auerre this, but that the Sea is as a sublunarie Planet.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 63 Of these sublunary Diuels..Psellus makes six kindes, fiery, aeriall, terrestriall, watery, and subterranean Diuels.

1700 T. Tryon Lett. xxvii. 158 He [sc. Man] instantly became his own Law-maker, and was thereby subjected to all the Influences, Laws and Customs of the Sublunary Planets, Stars and Constellations.

1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day i. 6 Ye Sublunary Worlds awake, awake.

1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 168 The Four Doctors are in the centre of what may be called the sublunary part of the picture.

1902 A. M. Clerke Probl. Astrophysics (1903) 2 The long-divorced sublunary and translunary worlds.

1984 D. Cupitt Sea of Faith ii. 39 Flames rise in air, so that beyond the atmosphere there must be a fiery sphere, filling out the rest of the sublunary realm.

2006 M. A. Hoskin Leprosy in Medieval Eng. ii. 96 The sublunary world of earth, water, fire and air was vulnerable to change and decay.

b. Inferior; subordinate.Apparently not attested in the 18th and 19th centuries.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective]

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lowc1175

poor?c1225

feeblec1275

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petty1372

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unmeeta1393

illa1400

commonc1400

coarse1424

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unlikelyc1450

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reprobate?1545

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puny1579

under1580

wooden1592

sordid1596

puisne1598

provant1601

subministrant1604

inferious1607

sublunary1624

indifferent1638

undermatched1642

unworthy1646

underly1648

turncoated1650

female1652

undergraduate1655

farandinical1675

baddishc1736

ungenerous1745

understrapping1762

tinnified1794

demi-semi1805

shabby1805

dicky1819

poor white1821

tin-pot1838

deterior1848

substandard1850

crumby1859

cheesy1863

po'1866

not-quite1867

rocky1873

mouldy1876

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sketchy1878

midget1879

junky1880

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abysmal1904

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junk1908

crap1936

ropy1941

bodger1945

two-star1951

tripey1955

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schlocky1960

cack1978

wank1991

bowf1994

society > authority > office > holder of office > [adjective] > subordinate

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puny1579

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puisne1705

junior1766

1624 H. Burton Censure of Simonie xv. 93 These be, as the two great Lights in the Firmament of the Church, from whom the sublunary and subordinate people receiue the direction and conduct of their life.

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xii. 90 The Arch-artist in this Minerall is the Alchymist; for the rest are all sublunarie unto him.

1902 C. Wells Abeniki Caldwell ii. 40 Granting that two and two are six, the corollary reasoning must be that no premise is or may be capable of such conclusion as will render it sublunary to its agreed parallel.

1993 S. Bradfield Dreaming Revol. iii. 48 His..sublunary official..has been presumptuously trying to exceed his assigned role.

2. Of, in, or belonging to this world; earthly, terrestrial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > [adjective]

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netherOE

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temporalc1380

earthyc1429

terrestrialc1460

inferial?a1475

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earthish?1533

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terreal1598

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subcelestial1706

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terrean1714

terrigenal1744

subastral1752

geotic1755

tellurian1786

worldly1812

telluric1813

transglobal1953

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

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subcelestial1561

terrestrial1597

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terrene1635

subsidereal1636

under-celestial1640

subsolar1648

subsolary1661

planetary1831

earthside1951

Terran1953

1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. F4 He is eliuated into the third heaven when hee dreameth of her, and will admit no sublunarie resemblances in his comparisons concerning her.

1617 I. H. in Greenes Groatsworth of Witte (rev. ed.) To Wittie Poets sig. A2 A witte, that runnes this sublunarie Maze, and takes but Nature for its Originall.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 164 Dull sublunary lovers love (Whose soule is sense) cannot admit Absence.

1709 J. Swift Apollo Outwitted in Misc. (1711) 400 Stroling God's, whose usual Trade is..To Pick up Sublunary Ladies.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 279 The two essentials in the composition of all sublunary things were, by the ancient Greeks, termed psyche and hyle, that is..soul and body.

1826 T. L. Beddoes Let. Oct. in Wks. (1935) 620 All my sublunary excursions this summer have been botanical ones, & my translunary ones..a thought or two for a didactic Boem [sic]..on Myology.

1873 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 (ed. 2) VI. lxv. 3 For this too we may find a motive cause among sublunary human influences.

1937 S. Sassoon Mem. George Sherston 187 Staying at the kennels was the most significant occasion my little world could offer me, and in order that he might share my sublunary advancement I took Cockbird with me.

1988 B. Hilton Age of Atonement v. 184 Eternal damnation merely mirrors sublunary misfortunes.

2007 D. Sedley Creationism & its Critics in Antiq. vi. v. 196 Aristotle here makes sublunary teleology dependent upon its cosmic counterpart.

3. Characteristic of this world and its concerns; mundane; material; temporal, ephemeral.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual

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material1843

intramundane1845

unethereal1861

naturistic1886

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] > temporal or not spiritual

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secular1597

sublunary1609

temporarya1616

sublunarian1852

earthside1951

1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth 25 No pompe (how euer glorious) No ioy or pleasure, if sublunarie, But brings sacietie soone with their vse.

1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul iii. 3 Can ye hope to finde rest in any of these sublunary contentments?

1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 11 And toil we still for sublunary Pay?

1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xlv. 137 He began gradually to delight in sublunary pleasures.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 153 The Baron was exalted by wine, wrath, and scorn, above all sublunary considerations.

1864 Gleaner Mar. 18/1 We readily concede the fact that virtue is not free from sublunary ills.

1904 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 May 353/2 Kendrick sat..gazing at the majestic spectacle before him,..entirely forgetful of such sublunary matters as supper and shelter for the night.

1957 G. Sanders Let. in B. Aherne Dreadful Man (1979) 62 You talk about the theatre as if it had some cosmic significance. As a matter of fact it is pathetically sublunary.

2004 M. Potter Set Theory & its Philos. ii. 28 Although indefinite extensibility is endemic in mathematics and logic, Dummett is not claiming that it infects our ordinary sublunary discourse.

B. n.

A sublunary person or thing; (now esp.) a person of minor importance. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

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

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1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Unbeliefe ii. xii. 95 The same proportions which these Quintessences haue to their materialls, hath the soule of man to all sensible creatures.., albeit vertually including as great affinitie to sublunaries as spirits or Quintessences doe to their compounds.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia xii. 178 The mercurial part of it [sc. gold]..cannot be changed..by no sublunary except its compeer.

1682 R. Williams Let. 6 May in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1826) 8 2nd Ser. 198 We have tidings here of..London manifestations of joy, and the King's calling a parliament. But all these are but sublunaries, temporaries and trivials.

1720 Humourist Ded. p. xxiv To..publish to us Sublunaries..all the Secrets of your Honour's Privy-Council.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lviii. 276 Something extraordinary was to be done to keep her with us Sublunaries.

1856 J. E. Cooke Last of Foresters xviii. 101 In this abode of the graces and rural sublunaries,..our young friends seem to lead a very happy life.

1913 Harvard Monthly Apr. 61 But Mr. Russell's Good has no such claims upon us sublunaries.

1974 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 104 333 The sublunaries are left to make small-talk..until the star-director returns.

2004 L. Bayard Mr. Timothy x. 119 Perhaps two dozen men—professionals, mostly, sublunaries of the banking and mercantile worlds.

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

单词	sublunary
释义	sublunaryadj.n. Brit. /ˌsʌbˈluːn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈlunəri/ Forms: 1600s sublunarie, 1600s– sublunary. Origin: A borrowing from Latin Etymon: Latin sublunaris. Etymology: < post-classical Latin sublunaris sublunar adj.; compare -ary suffix². Compare Middle French, French sublunaire (1553 or earlier). Compare earlier lunary n.¹, sublunar adj. With use as noun compare earlier sublunar n. N.E.D. (1914) also gives the pronunciation (sɒ̆blⁱū·nări) /ˈsʌbl(j)uːnərɪ/. A. adj. 1. a. Existing or situated beneath the moon; lying between the orbit of the moon and the earth. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective] > beneath sublunar1598 sublunary1601 sublunarian1858 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. iv. 123 The sunne, keeping his certaine tabernacle in the heauens..doth nourish and cherrish with his heate & brightnesse these inferiour & sublunary bodies. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 512 Patritius doth not onely auerre this, but that the Sea is as a sublunarie Planet. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 63 Of these sublunary Diuels..Psellus makes six kindes, fiery, aeriall, terrestriall, watery, and subterranean Diuels. 1700 T. Tryon Lett. xxvii. 158 He [sc. Man] instantly became his own Law-maker, and was thereby subjected to all the Influences, Laws and Customs of the Sublunary Planets, Stars and Constellations. 1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day i. 6 Ye Sublunary Worlds awake, awake. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art (1850) 168 The Four Doctors are in the centre of what may be called the sublunary part of the picture. 1902 A. M. Clerke Probl. Astrophysics (1903) 2 The long-divorced sublunary and translunary worlds. 1984 D. Cupitt Sea of Faith ii. 39 Flames rise in air, so that beyond the atmosphere there must be a fiery sphere, filling out the rest of the sublunary realm. 2006 M. A. Hoskin Leprosy in Medieval Eng. ii. 96 The sublunary world of earth, water, fire and air was vulnerable to change and decay. b. Inferior; subordinate.Apparently not attested in the 18th and 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] evil971 lowc1175 poor?c1225 feeblec1275 vilea1300 petty1372 unthende1377 secondary1386 petitc1390 unmeeta1393 illa1400 commonc1400 coarse1424 indigent1426 unlikelyc1450 lesser1464 gross1474 naughty1526 inferior1531 reprobate?1545 slender1577 unlikely1578 puny1579 under1580 wooden1592 sordid1596 puisne1598 provant1601 subministrant1604 inferious1607 sublunary1624 indifferent1638 undermatched1642 unworthy1646 underly1648 turncoated1650 female1652 undergraduate1655 farandinical1675 baddishc1736 ungenerous1745 understrapping1762 tinnified1794 demi-semi1805 shabby1805 dicky1819 poor white1821 tin-pot1838 deterior1848 substandard1850 crumby1859 cheesy1863 po'1866 not-quite1867 rocky1873 mouldy1876 low-grade1878 sketchy1878 midget1879 junky1880 ullaged1892 abysmal1904 bodgie1905 junk1908 crap1936 ropy1941 bodger1945 two-star1951 tripey1955 manky1958 schlocky1960 cack1978 wank1991 bowf1994 society > authority > office > holder of office > [adjective] > subordinate secondary1450 subordinatec1485 puny1579 sublunary1624 puisne1705 junior1766 1624 H. Burton Censure of Simonie xv. 93 These be, as the two great Lights in the Firmament of the Church, from whom the sublunary and subordinate people receiue the direction and conduct of their life. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xii. 90 The Arch-artist in this Minerall is the Alchymist; for the rest are all sublunarie unto him. 1902 C. Wells Abeniki Caldwell ii. 40 Granting that two and two are six, the corollary reasoning must be that no premise is or may be capable of such conclusion as will render it sublunary to its agreed parallel. 1993 S. Bradfield Dreaming Revol. iii. 48 His..sublunary official..has been presumptuously trying to exceed his assigned role. 2. Of, in, or belonging to this world; earthly, terrestrial. 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 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [adjective] earthya1398 subcelestial1561 terrestrial1597 sublunary1609 beneatha1616 terrene1635 subsidereal1636 under-celestial1640 subsolar1648 subsolary1661 planetary1831 earthside1951 Terran1953 1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. F4 He is eliuated into the third heaven when hee dreameth of her, and will admit no sublunarie resemblances in his comparisons concerning her. 1617 I. H. in Greenes Groatsworth of Witte (rev. ed.) To Wittie Poets sig. A2 A witte, that runnes this sublunarie Maze, and takes but Nature for its Originall. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 164 Dull sublunary lovers love (Whose soule is sense) cannot admit Absence. 1709 J. Swift Apollo Outwitted in Misc. (1711) 400 Stroling God's, whose usual Trade is..To Pick up Sublunary Ladies. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 279 The two essentials in the composition of all sublunary things were, by the ancient Greeks, termed psyche and hyle, that is..soul and body. 1826 T. L. Beddoes Let. Oct. in Wks. (1935) 620 All my sublunary excursions this summer have been botanical ones, & my translunary ones..a thought or two for a didactic Boem [sic]..on Myology. 1873 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 (ed. 2) VI. lxv. 3 For this too we may find a motive cause among sublunary human influences. 1937 S. Sassoon Mem. George Sherston 187 Staying at the kennels was the most significant occasion my little world could offer me, and in order that he might share my sublunary advancement I took Cockbird with me. 1988 B. Hilton Age of Atonement v. 184 Eternal damnation merely mirrors sublunary misfortunes. 2007 D. Sedley Creationism & its Critics in Antiq. vi. v. 196 Aristotle here makes sublunary teleology dependent upon its cosmic counterpart. 3. Characteristic of this world and its concerns; mundane; material; temporal, ephemeral. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual fleshlyc1175 bodilya1340 temporalc1380 worldyc1380 claylya1400 elementaryc1440 mondiala1500 gross1509 fleshly-wise1542 elemental1574 outward1574 natural1581 terrestrene1599 elementated1605 sublunary1609 temporarya1616 subluminary1625 sublunar1625 outwardlya1642 material1843 intramundane1845 unethereal1861 naturistic1886 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] > temporal or not spiritual temporalc1380 secular1597 sublunary1609 temporarya1616 sublunarian1852 earthside1951 1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth 25 No pompe (how euer glorious) No ioy or pleasure, if sublunarie, But brings sacietie soone with their vse. 1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul iii. 3 Can ye hope to finde rest in any of these sublunary contentments? 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 11 And toil we still for sublunary Pay? 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xlv. 137 He began gradually to delight in sublunary pleasures. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 153 The Baron was exalted by wine, wrath, and scorn, above all sublunary considerations. View more context for this quotation 1864 Gleaner Mar. 18/1 We readily concede the fact that virtue is not free from sublunary ills. 1904 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 May 353/2 Kendrick sat..gazing at the majestic spectacle before him,..entirely forgetful of such sublunary matters as supper and shelter for the night. 1957 G. Sanders Let. in B. Aherne Dreadful Man (1979) 62 You talk about the theatre as if it had some cosmic significance. As a matter of fact it is pathetically sublunary. 2004 M. Potter Set Theory & its Philos. ii. 28 Although indefinite extensibility is endemic in mathematics and logic, Dummett is not claiming that it infects our ordinary sublunary discourse. B. n. A sublunary person or thing; (now esp.) a person of minor importance. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > that which is created creaturec1300 making1340 feature1483 facturea1500 sublunar1613 sublunary1625 subcelestial1652 1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Unbeliefe ii. xii. 95 The same proportions which these Quintessences haue to their materialls, hath the soule of man to all sensible creatures.., albeit vertually including as great affinitie to sublunaries as spirits or Quintessences doe to their compounds. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia xii. 178 The mercurial part of it [sc. gold]..cannot be changed..by no sublunary except its compeer. 1682 R. Williams Let. 6 May in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1826) 8 2nd Ser. 198 We have tidings here of..London manifestations of joy, and the King's calling a parliament. But all these are but sublunaries, temporaries and trivials. 1720 Humourist Ded. p. xxiv To..publish to us Sublunaries..all the Secrets of your Honour's Privy-Council. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lviii. 276 Something extraordinary was to be done to keep her with us Sublunaries. 1856 J. E. Cooke Last of Foresters xviii. 101 In this abode of the graces and rural sublunaries,..our young friends seem to lead a very happy life. 1913 Harvard Monthly Apr. 61 But Mr. Russell's Good has no such claims upon us sublunaries. 1974 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 104 333 The sublunaries are left to make small-talk..until the star-director returns. 2004 L. Bayard Mr. Timothy x. 119 Perhaps two dozen men—professionals, mostly, sublunaries of the banking and mercantile worlds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1601
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