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Definition of sublunary in English: sublunaryadjective sʌbˈluːn(ə)risəbˈlo͞onərē literary Belonging to this world as contrasted with a better or more spiritual one. the concept was irrational to sublunary minds Example sentencesExamples - In the sublunary world, elemental powers are simple and deterministic.
- The laicization and secularizing of death stemming from the Scientific Revolution led to sublimation of the belief in a divine afterlife into the prospect of a sublunary life extension.
- Aristotle believed that most reasoning, including reasoning about what to do and about sublunary natural phenomena, dealt with things that hold ‘always or for the most part.’
- Following Aristotle and the Platonists, Abraham divided the universe into three parts: the spiritual, celestial, and sublunary worlds.
- He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense.
- ‘In numerology,’ Shapiro writes, seven ‘is the number of eternity and mutability, of the temporal, sublunary world and the world of the eternal Sabbath.’
- Dante transports an earthly historicity into his heaven and hell, in an idiom which is both sublime and sublunary.
- All corporal bodies were deemed to be the product of two principles - primary matter and an added ‘something’ called form - but an absolute distinction was made between the unchanging heavens and the corruptible sublunary universe.
Synonyms earthly, terrestrial, temporal, mundane, mortal, human, non-spiritual, unspiritual, material, materialistic, physical, tangible, carnal, fleshly, bodily, corporeal, gross, sensual, base, sordid, vile, profane
Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'terrestrial'): from modern Latin sublunaris. Rhymes buffoonery, poltroonery, superlunary Definition of sublunary in US English: sublunaryadjectivesəbˈlo͞onərē literary Belonging to this world as contrasted with a better or more spiritual one. the concept was irrational to sublunary minds Example sentencesExamples - ‘In numerology,’ Shapiro writes, seven ‘is the number of eternity and mutability, of the temporal, sublunary world and the world of the eternal Sabbath.’
- Aristotle believed that most reasoning, including reasoning about what to do and about sublunary natural phenomena, dealt with things that hold ‘always or for the most part.’
- Following Aristotle and the Platonists, Abraham divided the universe into three parts: the spiritual, celestial, and sublunary worlds.
- In the sublunary world, elemental powers are simple and deterministic.
- He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense.
- Dante transports an earthly historicity into his heaven and hell, in an idiom which is both sublime and sublunary.
- The laicization and secularizing of death stemming from the Scientific Revolution led to sublimation of the belief in a divine afterlife into the prospect of a sublunary life extension.
- All corporal bodies were deemed to be the product of two principles - primary matter and an added ‘something’ called form - but an absolute distinction was made between the unchanging heavens and the corruptible sublunary universe.
Synonyms earthly, terrestrial, temporal, mundane, mortal, human, non-spiritual, unspiritual, material, materialistic, physical, tangible, carnal, fleshly, bodily, corporeal, gross, sensual, base, sordid, vile, profane
Origin Late 16th century (in the sense ‘terrestrial’): from modern Latin sublunaris. |