ADJECTIVE
- situated between the earth and the moon
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of this earth
fleeting sublunary pleasures
the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball
transcendental motives for sublunary actions
How To Use sublunary In A Sentence
- And us sublunary types can look up at her, and her dark quiet seas, and in moments pass again into our purer minds. Bonus Music Video: Sea of Tranquillity by Luke Powers - NASA Watch
- ‘In numerology,’ Shapiro writes, seven ‘is the number of eternity and mutability, of the temporal, sublunary world and the world of the eternal Sabbath.’
- Following Aristotle and the Platonists, Abraham divided the universe into three parts: the spiritual, celestial, and sublunary worlds.
- 279 The two essentials in the composition of all sublunary things were, by the ancient Greeks, termed psyche and hyle, that is, spiritus et materia, soul and body. 1877 tr. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1156
- fleeting sublunary pleasures
- I mean more specifically the Christian doctrine of the incarnation (Hoc est enim corpus meum), along with the Christian doctrine which holds that although sublunary things pass, like men passing over Crazy Jane's body, or like progress down a road, all those temporally moving things do not vanish. Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community
- He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense.
- ‘Bob of Dumblain,’ under the influence of half a mutchkin of brandy, he seemed to trot merrily forward, with a happy indifference to the state of the country, the conduct of the party, the end of the journey, and all other sublunary matters whatever. Waverley
- But the third verse whams in with "another country", namely heaven – thus not only annoying those of other religions and none, but implying that sublunary patriotism may be subject to overrule by the man upstairs. So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse?
- Aristotelian science had distinguished between the superlunary sphere (above the moon) which was fixed and perfect, and the sublunary sphere (the moon, meteors and the earth) which was mutable.