LekhoriLekhoriUsed for emphasis
The pressures of politics and war seem remote on this lovely stretch of California coastline, but last week there was no earthly way to avoid them.
Alternative letter-case form of earthly (“relating to the Earth”).
Except at Trenco’s very poles there is not a spot in which or a time at which an Earthly gale would not constitute a dead calm; […] The wind was now scarcely more than an Earthly hurricane; […] its smaller stars, brilliant to Earthly eyes only because of their nearness, would be dimmer, perhaps invisible; […]
That which is of the earth or earthly; a terrestrial being.
He claims that the book directs the believer to let go of the earthly and await God's kingdom in the heavenly.
A slightest chance (of success etc.) or idea (about something).
He arched his eyebrows over the summons. "The poor devil has not an earthly!" said he. "He's lucky to have a summons. Usually they act on a warrant."
in an earthly manner.
But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.
From Middle English erthely, erthlich, ierðlich, from Old English eorþlīċ, corresponding to earth + -ly. Cognate with Old Norse jarðligr (“earthly”).
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