Definition of "sublunary" []

• Situated beneath the moon. (adjective)
• Of this world; earthly. (adjective)

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• "And us sublunary types can look up at her, and her dark quiet seas, and in moments pass again into our purer minds."
• "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."
• "'ALLOWING for the imperfect state of sublunary happiness, which is comparative at best, there are not, perhaps, many nations existing whose situation is so desirable; where the means of subsistence are so easy, and the wants of the people so few … The evident distinction of ranks, which subsists at Otaheite, does not so materially affect the felicity of the nation as we might have supposed."