Word Meanings - SUBLUNARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any worldly thing.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBLUNARY)
- Temporal
- Secular
- worldly
- civil
- political
- transient
- fleeting
- laical
- terrestrial
- sublunary
- mundane
- Terrestrial
- Earthly
- terrene
Related words: (words related to SUBLUNARY)
- FLEET
1. A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London. Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. Matthewes. 2. A former prison in London, - TEMPORALNESS
Worldliness. Cotgrave. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining - MUNDANE
Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv. The defilement of mundane passions. I. Taylor. (more info) toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. mansds - LAICALITY
The state or quality of being laic; the state or condition of a layman. - WORLDLY-MINDED
Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n. - SECULAR
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. Burke. - TEMPORAL
Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell. - TERRENE
A tureen. Walpole. - TEMPORALTY
1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality. - FLEET-FOOT
Swift of foot. Shak. - FLEETINGLY
In a fleeting manner; swiftly. - POLITICALLY
1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles. - FLEETING
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient. - LAICALLY
As a layman; after the manner of a layman; as, to treat a matter laically. - SECULARIZATION
The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property. - FLEETEN
Fleeted or skimmed milk. Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl. - CIVILIZED
Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy. - CIVILIZE
1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden 2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state. - SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY
Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are - UNEARTHLY
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n. - INCIVIL
Uncivil; rude. Shak. - METROPOLITICAL
Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall. - ULTRAMUNDANE
Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system. Boyle. - UNCIVILIZATION
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. - UNSECULARIZE
To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world. - IMPOLITICAL
Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon. - DECIVILIZE
To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag. - UNCIVILTY
In an uncivil manner. - UNCIVILITY
Incivility.