telluric

[ UK /tɛlˈɔːɹɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium
  2. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
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  • They thread through their own strands of infection into the pheremonal plumage of kingdom socialites and prostitutes, the telluric ephemera of engineers and navigators, the chemical sequencing of medics and pushers alike. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • You must be plugged into the telluric currents of Midwestern baseball. Yanks-Twins: Game 3 | ATTACKERMAN
  • Still another category includes what might loosely be called medical terms: anatomist, cad-wagon, cachexy, cataplasm, cholera sermon, resurrectioner, and of course the contagionist, meteorastic, and telluric schools of medicine. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
  • Subsequent drilling, which resulted in the discovery of oil, supported the telluric - current picture.
  • Let's see, and we also call this period the Anthropogene, the era in which mankind's activities became a ‘new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of earth’.
  • The uranological portion of the Cosmos is more simple than the telluric; the impossibility of ascertaining the diversity of matter simplifies the study of the mechanism of the heavens. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
  • The poet did not nail his colors with a cheer to the mast of any of the great questions of the day, ethical or social, and therefore suffered the disparagements of those intelligent friends of his who have been taught to consider a well-defined rigidity of conviction and maintenance, in the midst of all these phenomena of our universe, telluric and uranological, as the test of everything valuable in human character and morals. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860
  • `Because the Lightstone,' Ymiru said, `is attuned to the galastei and all things of power, but especially to the telluric currents. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
  • But Ojakangas, too, is interested in the notion of the event as it relates to the law and its "sacred origins," traceable back to the telluric relation to the earth. Archive 2009-06-01
  • These stones, or these steeples, are working in tandem with the earth's telluric energies coming up from the wells.
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