terrestrial

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TERRES'TRIAL, adjective [Latin terrestris, from terra, the earth.] 1. Pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; as terrestrial animals; bodies terrestrial 1 Corinthians 15:40. 2. Consisting of earth; as the terrestrial globe. 3. Pertaining to the world, or to the present state; sublunary. Death puts and end to all terrestrial scenes.
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