Terrene
WordNet
adjective
(1) Belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
"Not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"
"So terrene a being as himself"
(2) Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly as opposed to heavenly
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- 1922: Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- 1974: For the earth was both celestial and terrene, the down here and the up there. — Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
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