单词 | terraqueous globe |
释义 | > as lemmasterraqueous globe 1. Consisting of, or formed of, land and water; nearly always in terraqueous globe. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [adjective] > as formed of land and water terraqueous1658 terraquean1861 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Terraqueous, composed of earth and water together. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 99 The halituous Effluxions and Aporrhœa's of this terraqueous Globe below. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 171 The whole Terrestrial (or Terraqueous) Globe. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 14 A Part how small of the terraqueous Globe Is tenanted by man? 1781 W. Cowper Charity 122 Providence enjoins to every soul An union with the vast terraqueous whole. 1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 701/1 (margin) Relation of terraqueous agencies in ancient and modern eras. 1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) iii. 72 The maintenance of a habitable terraqueous surface. < as lemmas |
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