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单词 sublunary
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Definition of sublunary in English:

sublunary

adjective sʌbˈluːn(ə)risəbˈlo͞onərē
literary
  • Belonging to this world as contrasted with a better or more spiritual one.

    〈诗/文〉尘世的,人间的

    the concept was irrational to sublunary minds

    在凡人想来那个概念不合理。

    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:

sublunary

adjectivesəbˈlo͞onərē
literary
  • Belonging to this world as contrasted with a better or more spiritual one.

    〈诗/文〉尘世的,人间的

    the concept was irrational to sublunary minds

    在凡人想来那个概念不合理。

    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.

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