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Type Words
Synonyms sublunar, terrestrial


transcendental motives for sublunary actions.
fleeting sublunary pleasures.
Type Words
Synonyms cislunar, sublunar

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Plato and Aristotle helped to formulate the theory of a sublunary sphere in antiquity.
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Physical explanations in the sublunary realm revolved around tendencies.
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The sublunary sphere is a concept derived from Greek astronomy.
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In actuality, Clay's judges will be wholly sublunary.
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The four elements were arranged concentrically around the center of the Universe to form the sublunary sphere.
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The four elements were arranged concentrically around the center of the universe to form the sublunary sphere.
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In Shakespearean drama, both tragic and comic, the storms and calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men.
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Thomas Aquinas is among those who picked up on the ideas of an existing sublunary sphere, and charted them in his work Summa Theologica.
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Debates about the legacy of the games can seem a little beside the point-rather like arguments about whether this sublunary life has any meaning if there isn't another one after it.
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  • Sublunar: situated between the earth and the moon
  • Sublunar: of this earth; "transcendental motives for sublunary actions"; "fleeting sublunary pleasures"; "the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball"
  • Sublunary is a webcomic by Reena Smith and Sarah Terry hosted on Comic Genesis. The comic features a post-apocalyptic and dystopian plot as well as explicit yaoi scenes. It is drawn in a Japanese style. Sublunary has been used as an example of the yaoi subculture on the Internet. ...
  • Below the Moon, referring to earthly things, the Moon being the closest celestial sphere to the Earth in the Ptolemaic system.