Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance.
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Earthy; terrestrial. "God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.""Be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb, and terrene honor.""Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience."
... generations would preserve a correct attitude towards him forever. This is very natural and human, but, like so many very natural and human things, very silly. Tillotson and the rest need not, after all, be pitied for our neglect of them. They either know nothing about it, or are above such terrene trifles. Let us keep our pity for the seething mass of divines who were not elegantly verbose, and had no fun or glory while they lasted. And let us keep a specially large portion for one whose lot was so much worse than merely ... — And Even Now - Essays • Max Beerbohm
... naturall humour of melancholie, according to all the Physicians, that euer writ thereupon, they shall finde that that will be ouer short a cloak to couer their knauery with: For as the humor of Melancholie in the selfe is blacke, heauie and terrene, so are the symptomes thereof, in any persones that are subject therevnto, leannes, palenes, desire of solitude: and if they come to the highest degree therof, mere folie and Manie: where as by the contrarie, a great nomber of them that euer haue bene convict or confessors of Witchcraft, ... — Daemonologie. • King James I
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