terrestrialadj.n.

/təˈrɛstrɪəl/

Forms: Also Middle English -yall(e, Middle English–1600s -iall(e, 1600s tere-. Also Middle English–1700s terrestial(l after celestial.

Etymology: < Latin terrestris ( < terra earth) + -al suffix¹. Compare obsolete French terrestriel (16th cent. in Godefroy).

A. adj.

1. Of or pertaining to this world, or to earth as opposed to heaven; earthly; worldly; mundane.

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

c1460 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 82 Graunt to man the blysse eternalle When he passith thys lyfe terrestryalle.

c1470 G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 592 What man is he that is terrestial But of hym thus sadly wol speke & telle?

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 183 The hieste powere intellectiue..separate somme tyme from substaunces terrestrialle.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xv. 40 There are celestiall bodyes, and there are bodyes terrestriall.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxij^v Depriued of his terrestrial Croune, to be recompensed with an heauenly garland.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares T iij b Their eyes are dazeled with terrestiall delights.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 67. ⁋2 The happiest lot of terrestrial existence.

1868 H. Law Beacons of Bible (1869) 47 The guilty have then no terrestrial refuge.

a. Of, pertaining, or referring to the earth; often in terrestrial ball, terrestrial globe, terrestrial sphere, the earth.

ΘΚΠ

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

earthya1398

subcelestial1561

terrestrial1597

sublunary1609

beneatha1616

terrene1635

subsidereal1636

under-celestial1640

subsolar1648

subsolary1661

planetary1831

earthside1951

Terran1953

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 37 From vnder this terrestriall ball.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 6 Extended to the plaine of the terrestriall Horizon.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. v. 19 The Sphericality of this Terrestial [1684 -trial] Globe.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 372 The Celestial, Terrestrial & Subterranean Deities.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature I. 563 The two terrestrial Hemispheres are not projected in the same manner.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. 46 The subject of terrestrial magnetism.

†b. Proceeding from, or belonging to, the solid earth or its soil; not atmospheric. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [adjective] > relating to

terrestrious1600

terreous1646

terrestrial1658

pedologic1900

pedological1924

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 908 Terrestrial or earthy Honey we call that, because the dew going away, it is suckt out of the very sweat of the earth.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xviii. 139 The Terrestrial Steam may..considerably alter the gravity or pressure of the Atmosphere.

c. Consisting of earth or soil. (humorous.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [adjective] > composed of

earthen?c1225

loamyc1230

terrestrial1844

terraceous1863

1844 O. W. Holmes Lines Berkshire Jubilee 48 No soil upon earth is so dear to our eyes As the soil we first stirred in terrestrial pies!

d. spec. terrestrial globe, a globe with a map of the earth on its surface: see globe n. 2; †terrestrial line (obsolete): see quot. 1704; terrestrial telescope, one used for observing terrestrial objects.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [noun] > planes, lines, or points

horizontal plane1638

eye-pointa1650

table1670

principal point1671

plan1678

geometrical plane1695

terrestrial line1704

vertical plane1704

baseline1724

station line1724

middle ground1753

picture plane1771

middle distance1778

primitive plane1798

seat1815

mid-distance1828

ground-plane1833

station point1859

mid-ground1864

no-sky line1927

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope > terrestrial telescope

terrestrial telescope1815

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 114 An objection against the terestriall Globe.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 31 In the Clocke [of Strassburg Cathedral]..there is a terrestrial globe.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Terrestrial Line... Line Terrestrial, in Perspective, is a Right Line, wherein the Geometrical Plane, and that of the Picture or Draught intersect one another.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 487 (heading) The terrestrial telescope, or perspective glass.

1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 153 Terrestrial telescopes will not have received their finishing touch,..until their secondary image is just as perfect as their first.

1869 J. Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 245 The poles, equator, and parallel of latitude of an ordinary terrestrial globe.

e. terrestrial magnetism n. the magnetic properties of the earth as a whole.

ΚΠ

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. 46 The subject of terrestrial magnetism forms a very important addition to the general facts.

f. Astronomy. Designating planets which are similar in size or composition to the Earth.

ΘΚΠ

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

terrestrial1888

1888 C. A. Young Text-bk. Gen. Astron. xiv. 322 The terrestrial planets are Mercury, Venus, the earth, and Mars. They are bodies of the same order of magnitude.., not very different in density.., and are probably roughly alike in physical constitution.

1926 E. A. Fath Elem. Astron. xi. 135 The eight planets fall into two groups, the first usually being termed the terrestrial planets.

1973 Nature 17 Aug. 424/2 The terrestrial planets..are solid bodies.

1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 68/2 Io..and Callisto belong to the family of objects designated terrestrial.

†3. Of the nature or character of earth, esp. as being dry and solid or pulverulent; possessing earth-like properties or qualities; earthy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [adjective] > having earth-like qualities

terrestrial1594

terrestrious1600

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 21 in Jewell House [Quick lime] whose moisture is altogether exhaled, so as there remaineth therein nothing else, but the terrestrial parts replenished with a fiery vertue.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xviii. 49 The thick and terrestrial Excrements of the Kidneys.

1685 R. Boyle Short Mem. Hist. Mineral Waters 29 Of the division of the Cap. Mort. into saline and terrestrial and other parts not dissoluble in Water.

1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 903 Acids..do dissolve animal calculi, by acting upon their terrestrial parts.

4. Of, or pertaining to, the land of the world, as distinct from the waters.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > [adjective]

terrestrial1628

terrestrious1650

land-like1804

1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 20 We offer you a naval not a terrestrial league.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 220 The terrestrial & naval battailes here graven.

1836 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. V. xlii. 677 While England was..extending her naval dominion,..Napoleon was..advancing in his career of universal terrestrial empire.

5. Natural History. Occurring on, or inhabiting, land:

a. Zoology. Living on the land as distinguished from the waters, or on the ground as distinct from the air; applied spec. to birds of the order Terrestres, and to air-breathing molluscs and crustaceans.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > [adjective] > occurring on

terrestrian1608

terrestrial1638

terrestrious1646

terrene1661

shore-going1833

onshore1896

land-based1933

the world > animals > by habitat > [adjective] > terrestrial

terrestrian1608

terrestrial1638

the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [adjective] > inhabiting land

terrestrial1638

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 351 Fishes need lesse Refrigeration, than Terrestriall Creatures.

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Bird Birds are usually divided into terrestrial and aquatic.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 479 The subserviency of our planet to the support of terrestrial as well as aquatic species.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xi. 376 Some strictly analogous facts could be given on the distribution of terrestrial animals.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 455 A few Gastropoda are terrestrial and air-breathers.

b. Botany. Growing in the soil; distinguished from aquatic, marine, parasitic, or epiphytic.

ΚΠ

1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica Table 457 Fungi. Terrestrial or parasitical plants of very variable consistence; but never of a green colour.

1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (1850) II. 305 Land covered with a luxuriant vegetation of terrestrial plants.

1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 660 The autumn crocus, tulip, crown imperial, terrestrial orchids.

B. n. (The adjective used absolutely.)

a. A terrestrial being; esp. a human being, a mortal; in quot. 1602, a man of secular estate, a layman.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > member of

worldhoodeOE

man of the worlda1225

secularc1425

idiot?c1430

layman?a1475

lay?1533

beardling1568

laic1596

terrestrial1602

layperson1972

the world > people > person > [noun]

hadc900

lifesmaneOE

maneOE

world-maneOE

ghostOE

wyeOE

lifeOE

son of manOE

wightc1175

soulc1180

earthmanc1225

foodc1225

person?c1225

creaturec1300

bodyc1325

beera1382

poppetc1390

flippera1400

wat1399

corsec1400

mortal?a1425

deadly?c1450

hec1450

personagec1485

wretcha1500

human1509

mundane1509

member1525

worma1556

homo1561

piece of flesh1567

sconce1567

squirrel?1567

fellow creature1572

Adamite1581

bloat herringa1586

earthling1593

mother's child1594

stuff1598

a piece of flesh1600

wagtail1607

bosom1608

fragment1609

boots1623

tick1631

worthy1649

earthlies1651

snap1653

pippin1665

being1666

personal1678

personality1678

sooterkin1680

party1686

worldling1687

human being1694

water-wagtail1694

noddle1705

human subject1712

piece of work1713

somebody1724

terrestrial1726

anybody1733

individual1742

character1773

cuss1775

jig1781

thingy1787

bod1788

curse1790

his nabs1790

article1796

Earthite1814

critter1815

potato1815

personeityc1816

nibs1821

somebody1826

tellurian1828

case1832

tangata1840

prawn1845

nigger1848

nut1856

Snooks1860

mug1865

outfit1867

to deliver the goods1870

hairpin1879

baby1880

possum1894

hot tamale1895

babe1900

jobbie1902

virile1903

cup of tea1908

skin1914

pisser1918

number1919

job1927

apple1928

mush1936

face1944

jong1956

naked ape1965

oke1970

punter1975

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. i. 97 Giue me thy hand terestiall,..giue me thy hand celestiall.

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 691 Heav'n that knows what all terrestrials need, Repose to night, and toil to day decreed.

1873 R. A. Proctor Expanse of Heaven (1877) 235 Varieties of effect altogether unfamiliar to us terrestrials.

b. The terrestrial world, the earth (rare).

ΘΚΠ

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

earthOE

ballc1300

Tellus1567

this earthly round1584

mass1587

underworld1609

footstool1652

terrestrial1745

terra firma1786

Planet Earth1858

terra1947

earthside1958

1745 E. Young Consolation 31 Thou,..Whose little Heart, is moor'd within a Nook Of this obscure Terrestrial.

c. plural. Terrestrial animals, orders, or families: see quot. 1842.

ΚΠ

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1224/2 Terrestrials, Terrestres, the name of a section of the class Aves, corresponding to the orders Rasores and Cursores; also of a family of Pulmonated Gastropods, and of a division of Isopodous Crustaceans.

Derivatives

teˈrrestrialism n. worldliness (as a way of life), secularity.

ΘΚΠ

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

secularity1395

sieclec1400

worldlishipa1425

worldliness?c1430

worldlihoodc1443

mundanity1506

secularness?1529

carnality1548

carnalness1549

earthliness1549

rudiments of the world1557

Sadduceeism1577

Sadducism1581

earthly-mindedness1603

temporalness1611

worldly-mindedness1621

corporality1628

unspiritualness1642

civility1644

corporeity1653

materialism1822

unspirituality1843

secularism1851

terrestrialism1856

temporalism1872

this-worldliness1872

despiritualization1874

this-worldism1883

this-worldness1930

1856 L. H. Grindon Life (1875) xxiii. 297 Falling neither into fanaticism nor terrestrialism.

teˈrrestrialize v. (transitive), to make terrestrial or earthly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > render material [verb (transitive)]

immerse1605

clod1610

material1643

corporify1644

terrestrify1646

corporize1691

materialize1710

terrestrialize1829

reify1854

thingify1871

sensualize1884

1829 Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 25 389 Every breath of air we draw is terrestrialized or etherealized by imagination.

1901 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 357 Once terrestrialised, life..is ‘not a dream but may become one’.

Draft additions 1993

Telecommunications. Pertaining to or designating broadcasting, data transmission, etc., which does not make use of satellites.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > [adjective] > types of link or network

ship-to-ship1904

two-way1922

ship-to-shore1923

multichannel1930

multipath1936

multi-channelled1950

store-and-forward1963

terrestrial1968

ISDN1974

society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [adjective] > without use of satellite

terrestrial1968

1960 Policy Planning for Space Telecommunications (U.S. Congr. Senate Comm. Aeronaut. & Space Sci.) 55 Developments in space vehicles, and in particular suitably equipped artificial satellites, are likely to enable considerable progress to be made..in the development and improvement of long distance terrestrial telecommunications.]

1968 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 25 Mar. 23/3 When necessary..terrestrial services operating on the same band with space services should use directional beams.

1976 Business Week 12 Jan. 26/1 Instead of using terrestrial phone lines to reach earth stations that relay signals through satellite links, the proposal calls for [etc.].

1982 Giant Bk. Electronics Projects v. 192 The vestigial-sideband AM video standard used for terrestrial TV broadcast.

1989 Broadcast 13 Oct. 48/4 Channel 5 is expected to begin broadcasting by 1995, and will eventually reach 70 per cent of Britain, using spare terrestrial frequencies.

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单词	terrestrial
释义	terrestrialadj.n. /təˈrɛstrɪəl/ Forms: Also Middle English -yall(e, Middle English–1600s -iall(e, 1600s tere-. Also Middle English–1700s terrestial(l after celestial. Etymology: < Latin terrestris ( < terra earth) + -al suffix¹. Compare obsolete French terrestriel (16th cent. in Godefroy). A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to this world, or to earth as opposed to heaven; earthly; worldly; mundane. 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 c1460 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 82 Graunt to man the blysse eternalle When he passith thys lyfe terrestryalle. c1470 G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 592 What man is he that is terrestial But of hym thus sadly wol speke & telle? ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 183 The hieste powere intellectiue..separate somme tyme from substaunces terrestrialle. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xv. 40 There are celestiall bodyes, and there are bodyes terrestriall. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxij^v Depriued of his terrestrial Croune, to be recompensed with an heauenly garland. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares T iij b Their eyes are dazeled with terrestiall delights. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 67. ⁋2 The happiest lot of terrestrial existence. 1868 H. Law Beacons of Bible (1869) 47 The guilty have then no terrestrial refuge. 2. a. Of, pertaining, or referring to the earth; often in terrestrial ball, terrestrial globe, terrestrial sphere, the earth. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [adjective] earthya1398 subcelestial1561 terrestrial1597 sublunary1609 beneatha1616 terrene1635 subsidereal1636 under-celestial1640 subsolar1648 subsolary1661 planetary1831 earthside1951 Terran1953 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 37 From vnder this terrestriall ball. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 6 Extended to the plaine of the terrestriall Horizon. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. v. 19 The Sphericality of this Terrestial [1684 -trial] Globe. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 372 The Celestial, Terrestrial & Subterranean Deities. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature I. 563 The two terrestrial Hemispheres are not projected in the same manner. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. 46 The subject of terrestrial magnetism. †b. Proceeding from, or belonging to, the solid earth or its soil; not atmospheric. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [adjective] > relating to terrestrious1600 terreous1646 terrestrial1658 pedologic1900 pedological1924 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 908 Terrestrial or earthy Honey we call that, because the dew going away, it is suckt out of the very sweat of the earth. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xviii. 139 The Terrestrial Steam may..considerably alter the gravity or pressure of the Atmosphere. c. Consisting of earth or soil. (humorous.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [adjective] > composed of earthen?c1225 loamyc1230 terrestrial1844 terraceous1863 1844 O. W. Holmes Lines Berkshire Jubilee 48 No soil upon earth is so dear to our eyes As the soil we first stirred in terrestrial pies! d. spec. terrestrial globe, a globe with a map of the earth on its surface: see globe n. 2; †terrestrial line (obsolete): see quot. 1704; terrestrial telescope, one used for observing terrestrial objects. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > perspective > [noun] > planes, lines, or points horizontal plane1638 eye-pointa1650 table1670 principal point1671 plan1678 geometrical plane1695 terrestrial line1704 vertical plane1704 baseline1724 station line1724 middle ground1753 picture plane1771 middle distance1778 primitive plane1798 seat1815 mid-distance1828 ground-plane1833 station point1859 mid-ground1864 no-sky line1927 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope > terrestrial telescope terrestrial telescope1815 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 114 An objection against the terestriall Globe. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 31 In the Clocke [of Strassburg Cathedral]..there is a terrestrial globe. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Terrestrial Line... Line Terrestrial, in Perspective, is a Right Line, wherein the Geometrical Plane, and that of the Picture or Draught intersect one another. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 487 (heading) The terrestrial telescope, or perspective glass. 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 153 Terrestrial telescopes will not have received their finishing touch,..until their secondary image is just as perfect as their first. 1869 J. Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 245 The poles, equator, and parallel of latitude of an ordinary terrestrial globe. e. terrestrial magnetism n. the magnetic properties of the earth as a whole. ΚΠ 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. 46 The subject of terrestrial magnetism forms a very important addition to the general facts. f. Astronomy. Designating planets which are similar in size or composition to the Earth. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > [adjective] > resembling earth terrestrial1888 1888 C. A. Young Text-bk. Gen. Astron. xiv. 322 The terrestrial planets are Mercury, Venus, the earth, and Mars. They are bodies of the same order of magnitude.., not very different in density.., and are probably roughly alike in physical constitution. 1926 E. A. Fath Elem. Astron. xi. 135 The eight planets fall into two groups, the first usually being termed the terrestrial planets. 1973 Nature 17 Aug. 424/2 The terrestrial planets..are solid bodies. 1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 68/2 Io..and Callisto belong to the family of objects designated terrestrial. †3. Of the nature or character of earth, esp. as being dry and solid or pulverulent; possessing earth-like properties or qualities; earthy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [adjective] > having earth-like qualities terrestrial1594 terrestrious1600 1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 21 in Jewell House [Quick lime] whose moisture is altogether exhaled, so as there remaineth therein nothing else, but the terrestrial parts replenished with a fiery vertue. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xviii. 49 The thick and terrestrial Excrements of the Kidneys. 1685 R. Boyle Short Mem. Hist. Mineral Waters 29 Of the division of the Cap. Mort. into saline and terrestrial and other parts not dissoluble in Water. 1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 903 Acids..do dissolve animal calculi, by acting upon their terrestrial parts. 4. Of, or pertaining to, the land of the world, as distinct from the waters. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > [adjective] terrestrial1628 terrestrious1650 land-like1804 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 20 We offer you a naval not a terrestrial league. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 220 The terrestrial & naval battailes here graven. 1836 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. V. xlii. 677 While England was..extending her naval dominion,..Napoleon was..advancing in his career of universal terrestrial empire. 5. Natural History. Occurring on, or inhabiting, land: a. Zoology. Living on the land as distinguished from the waters, or on the ground as distinct from the air; applied spec. to birds of the order Terrestres, and to air-breathing molluscs and crustaceans. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > [adjective] > occurring on terrestrian1608 terrestrial1638 terrestrious1646 terrene1661 shore-going1833 onshore1896 land-based1933 the world > animals > by habitat > [adjective] > terrestrial terrestrian1608 terrestrial1638 the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [adjective] > inhabiting land terrestrial1638 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 351 Fishes need lesse Refrigeration, than Terrestriall Creatures. 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Bird Birds are usually divided into terrestrial and aquatic. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 479 The subserviency of our planet to the support of terrestrial as well as aquatic species. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xi. 376 Some strictly analogous facts could be given on the distribution of terrestrial animals. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 455 A few Gastropoda are terrestrial and air-breathers. b. Botany. Growing in the soil; distinguished from aquatic, marine, parasitic, or epiphytic. ΚΠ 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica Table 457 Fungi. Terrestrial or parasitical plants of very variable consistence; but never of a green colour. 1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (1850) II. 305 Land covered with a luxuriant vegetation of terrestrial plants. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 660 The autumn crocus, tulip, crown imperial, terrestrial orchids. B. n. (The adjective used absolutely.) a. A terrestrial being; esp. a human being, a mortal; in quot. 1602, a man of secular estate, a layman. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > member of worldhoodeOE man of the worlda1225 secularc1425 idiot?c1430 layman?a1475 lay?1533 beardling1568 laic1596 terrestrial1602 layperson1972 the world > people > person > [noun] hadc900 lifesmaneOE maneOE world-maneOE ghostOE wyeOE lifeOE son of manOE wightc1175 soulc1180 earthmanc1225 foodc1225 person?c1225 creaturec1300 bodyc1325 beera1382 poppetc1390 flippera1400 wat1399 corsec1400 mortal?a1425 deadly?c1450 hec1450 personagec1485 wretcha1500 human1509 mundane1509 member1525 worma1556 homo1561 piece of flesh1567 sconce1567 squirrel?1567 fellow creature1572 Adamite1581 bloat herringa1586 earthling1593 mother's child1594 stuff1598 a piece of flesh1600 wagtail1607 bosom1608 fragment1609 boots1623 tick1631 worthy1649 earthlies1651 snap1653 pippin1665 being1666 personal1678 personality1678 sooterkin1680 party1686 worldling1687 human being1694 water-wagtail1694 noddle1705 human subject1712 piece of work1713 somebody1724 terrestrial1726 anybody1733 individual1742 character1773 cuss1775 jig1781 thingy1787 bod1788 curse1790 his nabs1790 article1796 Earthite1814 critter1815 potato1815 personeityc1816 nibs1821 somebody1826 tellurian1828 case1832 tangata1840 prawn1845 nigger1848 nut1856 Snooks1860 mug1865 outfit1867 to deliver the goods1870 hairpin1879 baby1880 possum1894 hot tamale1895 babe1900 jobbie1902 virile1903 cup of tea1908 skin1914 pisser1918 number1919 job1927 apple1928 mush1936 face1944 jong1956 naked ape1965 oke1970 punter1975 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. i. 97 Giue me thy hand terestiall,..giue me thy hand celestiall. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 691 Heav'n that knows what all terrestrials need, Repose to night, and toil to day decreed. 1873 R. A. Proctor Expanse of Heaven (1877) 235 Varieties of effect altogether unfamiliar to us terrestrials. b. The terrestrial world, the earth (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [noun] earthOE ballc1300 Tellus1567 this earthly round1584 mass1587 underworld1609 footstool1652 terrestrial1745 terra firma1786 Planet Earth1858 terra1947 earthside1958 1745 E. Young Consolation 31 Thou,..Whose little Heart, is moor'd within a Nook Of this obscure Terrestrial. c. plural. Terrestrial animals, orders, or families: see quot. 1842. ΚΠ 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1224/2 Terrestrials, Terrestres, the name of a section of the class Aves, corresponding to the orders Rasores and Cursores; also of a family of Pulmonated Gastropods, and of a division of Isopodous Crustaceans. Derivatives teˈrrestrialism n. worldliness (as a way of life), secularity. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] secularity1395 sieclec1400 worldlishipa1425 worldliness?c1430 worldlihoodc1443 mundanity1506 secularness?1529 carnality1548 carnalness1549 earthliness1549 rudiments of the world1557 Sadduceeism1577 Sadducism1581 earthly-mindedness1603 temporalness1611 worldly-mindedness1621 corporality1628 unspiritualness1642 civility1644 corporeity1653 materialism1822 unspirituality1843 secularism1851 terrestrialism1856 temporalism1872 this-worldliness1872 despiritualization1874 this-worldism1883 this-worldness1930 1856 L. H. Grindon Life (1875) xxiii. 297 Falling neither into fanaticism nor terrestrialism. teˈrrestrialize v. (transitive), to make terrestrial or earthly. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > render material [verb (transitive)] immerse1605 clod1610 material1643 corporify1644 terrestrify1646 corporize1691 materialize1710 terrestrialize1829 reify1854 thingify1871 sensualize1884 1829 Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 25 389 Every breath of air we draw is terrestrialized or etherealized by imagination. 1901 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 357 Once terrestrialised, life..is ‘not a dream but may become one’. Draft additions 1993 Telecommunications. Pertaining to or designating broadcasting, data transmission, etc., which does not make use of satellites. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [adjective] > types of link or network ship-to-ship1904 two-way1922 ship-to-shore1923 multichannel1930 multipath1936 multi-channelled1950 store-and-forward1963 terrestrial1968 ISDN1974 society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [adjective] > without use of satellite terrestrial1968 1960 Policy Planning for Space Telecommunications (U.S. Congr. Senate Comm. Aeronaut. & Space Sci.) 55 Developments in space vehicles, and in particular suitably equipped artificial satellites, are likely to enable considerable progress to be made..in the development and improvement of long distance terrestrial telecommunications.] 1968 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 25 Mar. 23/3 When necessary..terrestrial services operating on the same band with space services should use directional beams. 1976 Business Week 12 Jan. 26/1 Instead of using terrestrial phone lines to reach earth stations that relay signals through satellite links, the proposal calls for [etc.]. 1982 Giant Bk. Electronics Projects v. 192 The vestigial-sideband AM video standard used for terrestrial TV broadcast. 1989 Broadcast 13 Oct. 48/4 Channel 5 is expected to begin broadcasting by 1995, and will eventually reach 70 per cent of Britain, using spare terrestrial frequencies. 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