tellurianadj.n.

Brit.

/tɛˈljʊərɪən/,

/tɛˈljɔːərɪən/,

/tᵻˈljʊərɪən/,

/tᵻˈljɔːərɪən/, U.S.

/təˈl(j)ʊriən/,

/tɛˈl(j)ʊriən/

Forms: 1700s– tellurian, 1700s– telurian. Also (chiefly in senses B. 2 and A. 1) with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin tellūr- , tellūs , -ian suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin tellūr-, tellūs earth (see Tellus n.) + -ian suffix. With use as adjective compare telluric adj.² Compare earlier tellurion n.

A. adj.

1. Of or relating to the earth; earthly, terrestrial. In later use frequently in Science Fiction: of, relating to, or living on the planet earth.

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

1786 C. Lofft tr. ‘Advocatus Pauperum’ Brief Acct. Hosp. St. Elisabeth 62 (note) The Cycle of the Sun; which may be called the Tellurian, or, Hebdomal or Septimanal Cycle: because it regards the effect of the intercalations arising from the excess of the real period of the Earth's Revolution above the computed one of 365 days.

1789 B. Burges Short Acct. Solar Syst. 13 It will show the heliocentric position of the telurian orb.

1821 Edinb. Philos. Jrnl. 4 108 With the view of proving that meteoric stones are not truly meteoric, but are of tellurian formation, having been projected from the interior of the earth.

1846 T. De Quincey Syst. Heavens in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 568/1 They absolutely hear the tellurian lungs wheezing, panting, crying.

1887 A. Lang Myth, Ritual & Relig. II. 120 There were moral, solar, lunar, cosmical, tellurian, and other methods of accounting for a myth which, in its origin, appears to be [etc.].

1915 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 16 Oct. 8/5 What the vast panorama [of the night sky] means we know not. But at least, it means something inconceivably nobler..than our little Tellurian vaudeville.

1930 M. J. Breuer & J. Williamson in Amazing Stories Q. Winter 29/1 The space-ports at the three great cities, were, of course, occupied or blockaded by the Tellurian fleets.

1954 G. P. Gladstone in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xix. 347 Epidemic disease..was later regarded by the physicians of ancient Greece as caused by natural climatic, cosmic and tellurian phenomena.

1997 I. S. Behr & R. H. Wolfe Legends of Ferengi 148 The workers have a life expectancy only slightly longer than a Tellurian gnat.

†2. Applied by the political writer John Reeves to anti-monarchists. Obsolete. rare.As part of an extended figure of speech likening anti-monarchist or republican views to the geocentric view of the universe.

ΚΠ

1799 J. Reeves Thoughts Eng. Govt. III. 65 The Tellurian Politicians..would take the Sovereign from his Sphere, and make him something like an attendant upon his subjects in parliament.

B. n.

†1. An anti-monarchist. Cf. A. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > monarchism > adherent of > not

antimonarchista1672

unroyalist1779

tellurian1799

1799 J. Reeves Thoughts Eng. Govt. III. 66 The unscientific Sectarists, your friends the Tellurians, were presently up in arms.

2. An inhabitant of the planet earth; an earthling. Chiefly Science Fiction in later use.

ΘΚΠ

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

1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 555 Man in the Moon. What monster have we here?—Away, Tellurian!

1847 T. De Quincey Joan of Arc in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 538/2 If any distant world..are so far ahead of us Tellurians in optical resources.

1864 Westm. Rev. Oct. 242/1 Those planets..must, from the absence of those seasonal vicissitudes to which we unfortunate Tellurians are exposed, afford more favourable conditions for [etc.].

1932 Amazing Stories Jan. 901/2 The Tellurians soon found themselves locked up in a great metal tower many miles from their space flier.

1968 E. E. Smith Skylark Three 162 DuQuesne, of course—I'll bet a hat no other Tellurian is this far from home.

2002 A. B. West Wakenight Emporium xxv. 101 It happens..that tellurians of learning and advanced years, such as myself, grow disenchanted with all things martian.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tellurian
释义	tellurianadj.n. Brit. /tɛˈljʊərɪən/, /tɛˈljɔːərɪən/, /tᵻˈljʊərɪən/, /tᵻˈljɔːərɪən/, U.S. /təˈl(j)ʊriən/, /tɛˈl(j)ʊriən/ Forms: 1700s– tellurian, 1700s– telurian. Also (chiefly in senses B. 2 and A. 1) with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin tellūr- , tellūs , -ian suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin tellūr-, tellūs earth (see Tellus n.) + -ian suffix. With use as adjective compare telluric adj.² Compare earlier tellurion n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to the earth; earthly, terrestrial. In later use frequently in Science Fiction: of, relating to, or living on the planet earth. 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 1786 C. Lofft tr. ‘Advocatus Pauperum’ Brief Acct. Hosp. St. Elisabeth 62 (note) The Cycle of the Sun; which may be called the Tellurian, or, Hebdomal or Septimanal Cycle: because it regards the effect of the intercalations arising from the excess of the real period of the Earth's Revolution above the computed one of 365 days. 1789 B. Burges Short Acct. Solar Syst. 13 It will show the heliocentric position of the telurian orb. 1821 Edinb. Philos. Jrnl. 4 108 With the view of proving that meteoric stones are not truly meteoric, but are of tellurian formation, having been projected from the interior of the earth. 1846 T. De Quincey Syst. Heavens in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 568/1 They absolutely hear the tellurian lungs wheezing, panting, crying. 1887 A. Lang Myth, Ritual & Relig. II. 120 There were moral, solar, lunar, cosmical, tellurian, and other methods of accounting for a myth which, in its origin, appears to be [etc.]. 1915 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 16 Oct. 8/5 What the vast panorama [of the night sky] means we know not. But at least, it means something inconceivably nobler..than our little Tellurian vaudeville. 1930 M. J. Breuer & J. Williamson in Amazing Stories Q. Winter 29/1 The space-ports at the three great cities, were, of course, occupied or blockaded by the Tellurian fleets. 1954 G. P. Gladstone in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xix. 347 Epidemic disease..was later regarded by the physicians of ancient Greece as caused by natural climatic, cosmic and tellurian phenomena. 1997 I. S. Behr & R. H. Wolfe Legends of Ferengi 148 The workers have a life expectancy only slightly longer than a Tellurian gnat. †2. Applied by the political writer John Reeves to anti-monarchists. Obsolete. rare.As part of an extended figure of speech likening anti-monarchist or republican views to the geocentric view of the universe. ΚΠ 1799 J. Reeves Thoughts Eng. Govt. III. 65 The Tellurian Politicians..would take the Sovereign from his Sphere, and make him something like an attendant upon his subjects in parliament. B. n. †1. An anti-monarchist. Cf. A. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > monarchism > adherent of > not antimonarchista1672 unroyalist1779 tellurian1799 1799 J. Reeves Thoughts Eng. Govt. III. 66 The unscientific Sectarists, your friends the Tellurians, were presently up in arms. 2. An inhabitant of the planet earth; an earthling. Chiefly Science Fiction in later use. ΘΚΠ 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 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 555 Man in the Moon. What monster have we here?—Away, Tellurian! 1847 T. De Quincey Joan of Arc in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 538/2 If any distant world..are so far ahead of us Tellurians in optical resources. 1864 Westm. Rev. Oct. 242/1 Those planets..must, from the absence of those seasonal vicissitudes to which we unfortunate Tellurians are exposed, afford more favourable conditions for [etc.]. 1932 Amazing Stories Jan. 901/2 The Tellurians soon found themselves locked up in a great metal tower many miles from their space flier. 1968 E. E. Smith Skylark Three 162 DuQuesne, of course—I'll bet a hat no other Tellurian is this far from home. 2002 A. B. West Wakenight Emporium xxv. 101 It happens..that tellurians of learning and advanced years, such as myself, grow disenchanted with all things martian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1786
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