sublunary

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sub=lu=nar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

sublunary, a. [Pref. sub + lunar, or lunary: cf. F. sublunaire.].

 Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly.  [1913 Webster]
"All things sublunary are subject to change."  [1913 Webster]
"All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are under."  [1913 Webster]

sublunary, n. 

 Any worldly thing.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sublunary, adj.
1 beneath the moon.
2 Astron. a within the moon's orbit. b subject to the moon's influence.
3 of this world; earthly.

Etymology

LL sublunaris (as SUB-, LUNAR)

ROGET THESAURUS

sublunary

World

N world, creation, nature, universe, earth, globe, wide world, cosmos, kosmos, terraqueous globe, sphere, macrocosm, megacosm, music of the spheres, heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean, starry cope, starry heaven, starry host, firmament, Midgard, supersensible regions, varuna, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial spaces, heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa, sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus, photosphere, chromosphere, solar system, planet, planetoid, comet, satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen, aerolite, meteor, planetary ring, falling star, shooting star, meteorite, uranolite, constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades, colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit, astronomy, uranography, uranology, cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony, eidouranion, orrery, geodesy, star gazing, star gazer, astronomer, observatory, planetarium, cosmic, cosmical, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun, sublunary, subastral, solar, heliacal, lunar, celestial, heavenly, sphery, starry, stellar, sidereal, sideral, astral, nebular, uranic, in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht, earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice o, green calm below, blue quietness above, hanging in a golden chain this pendant World, nothing in nature is unbeautiful, silently as a dream the fabric rose, some touch of nature's genial glow, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, through knowledge we behold the World's creation.