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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sublunar \Sub*lu"nar\, Sublunary \Sub"lu*na*ry\, a. [Pref. sub +
lunar, or lunary: cf F. sublunaire.]
Situated beneath the moon; hence of or pertaining to this
world; terrestrial; earthly.
All things sublunary are subject to change. --Dryden.
All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as
well as feel the influence, of the planet they are
under --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sublunary \Sub"lu*na*ry\, n.
Any worldly thing [Obs.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sublunary
adj 1: situated between the earth and the moon [syn: {sublunar}, {cislunar}]
2: of this earth; "transcendental motives for sublunary
actions"; "fleeting sublunary pleasures"; "the nearest to
an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball" [syn:
{sublunar}, {terrestrial}]
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