sublunary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between the moon and the earth.

   “Patritius [Franciscus Patricius?] doth not onely auerre this, but that the Sea is as a ſublunarie Planet, mouing it ſelfe, and moued by the ſuperiour bodies to effect the generation of things: […]”

2. sıfat In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.

   “Dull ſublunary lovers love / (VVhoſe ſoule is ſenſe) cannot admit / Abſence, becauſe it doth remove / Thoſe things vvhich elemented it.”

3. sıfat Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred, or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.

   “Whither now, O whither do ye rove, O my thoughts? Can ye hope to find rest, in any of these sublunary contentments?”

4. sıfat Inferior, subordinate.
5. isim A person or thing which is of the (material) world.

   “She vvas ſoaring upvvard to her native ſkies. She vvas got above earth, by means, too, of the Earth-born: And ſomething extraordinary vvas to be done to keep her vvith us Sublunaries.”

6. isim A less important person; an inferior, a subordinate.