LekhoriLekhoriSituated 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: […]
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?
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.
A less important person; an inferior, a subordinate.
PIE word *upó The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin sublūnāris (“sublunar, sublunary”) + English -ary (suffix meaning of or pertaining to forming adjectives). Sublūnāris is derived fro...
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