Earthly

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Earthly \Earth"ly\, adv.
     In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
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           Took counsel from his guiding eyes
           To make this wisdom earthly wise.        --Emerson.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Earthly \Earth"ly\, a.
     1. Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to
        man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual;
        carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers;
        earthly praise.
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              This earthly load
              Of death, called life.                --Milton.
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              Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly
              things.                               --Phil. iii.
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     2. Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
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              What earthly benefit can be the result? --Pope.
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     3. Made of earth; earthy. [Obs.] --Holland.
  
     Syn: Gross; material; sordid; mean; base; vile; low;
          unsubstantial; temporary; corrupt; groveling.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  earthly
       adj : of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as
             distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed
             that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly
             love"; "our earthly home" [ant: {heavenly}]
       [also: {earthliest}, {earthlier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthly":
     Philistine, base, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded, conceivable,
     corporal, corporeal, earth, earthbound, earthy, feasible, fleshly,
     fluvioterrestrial, geophilous, human, hylic, imaginable, likely,
     material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane, natural,
     nonspiritual, physical, possible, potential, profane, secular,
     sensual, somatic, subastral, sublunar, substantial, tellurian,
     telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unspiritual,
     worldly