Definition of "earthly" []

• Of, relating to, or characteristic of this earth. (adjective)
• Terrestrial; not heavenly or divine: earthly existence. (adjective)
• Worldly: earthly delights; one's earthly possessions. (adjective)
• Conceivable; possible: no earthly meaning whatever. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "People, the moment you start rationalizing earthly power and authority in * earthly* government has been established by GOD, you challenge and threaten to take away our earthly agency and our sense of the Divine invested in us in the call to "do good, do justice" and change corrupt government."
• "Jehovah's Witness #1: We don't vote in earthly elections."
• "All men are miserable in earthly kingdoms, for fate leaves no-one under the heavens unchanged."