terrene

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7
Pronunciation
/təˈɹiːn/
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/təˈɹiːn/ · /tɛˈɹiːn/

Definition of terrene

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Pertaining to earth or the material world; earthly, terrestrial (as opposed to heavenly or marine).
    “God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.”
    “Even Crovvns and Diadems, the moſt ſplendid parts of terrene attains; are akin to that, vvhich to day is in the field, and to morrovv is cut dovvn, and vvither'd: […]”
    “The common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience”
    “One had never thought of the sea as the great place of safety, but now it came over one that there is no place so safe from the land. When it does not give you trouble it takes it away—takes away letters and telegrams and newspapers and visits and duties and efforts, all the complications, all the superfluities and superstitions that we have stuffed into our terrene life.”
    “Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.”
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adj

  1. Pertaining to earth or the material world; earthly, terrestrial (as opposed to heavenly or marine).
    “God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.”
    “Even Crovvns and Diadems, the moſt ſplendid parts of terrene attains; are akin to that, vvhich to day is in the field, and to morrovv is cut dovvn, and vvither'd: […]”
    “The common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience”
    “One had never thought of the sea as the great place of safety, but now it came over one that there is no place so safe from the land. When it does not give you trouble it takes it away—takes away letters and telegrams and newspapers and visits and duties and efforts, all the complications, all the superfluities and superstitions that we have stuffed into our terrene life.”
    “Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.”
  2. Made of matter (as opposed to antimatter).
  3. (not-comparable)Synonym of Terran (“of Earth; of terrestrial origin”).

noun

  1. (poetic)The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
    “Tenfold the length of this terrene”
  2. (alt-of, dated)Dated form of tureen.
    “March 27, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu Esq. Execrable varnished pictures, chests, cabinets, commodes, tables, stands, boxes, riding on one another's backs, and loaded with terrenes, filligree, figures, and everything upon earth”
  3. Synonym of Terran (“an inhabitant of Earth; an earthling”).

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English terrene, from Anglo-Norman terriene, feminine of terrien, from Latin terrēnus, from terra (“earth”).

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