sublunary

The sublunary world we live in, subject to change.

"Well, let us make some lines, and see if the bait will draw here as it does in sublunary regions."

Only in the sublunary sphere did the powers of physics hold sway.

But my uncle, who never thought even of such sublunary matters, knew nothing of this.

In one sense, the pupil's witty answer might be given by a large majority of sublunary beings.

The comets pass in the sublunary region, and here we have air, as you can see for yourself."

The sublunary sphere is a concept derived from Greek astronomy.

The sublunary sphere was the realm of changing nature.

The four elements were arranged concentrically around the center of the universe to form the sublunary sphere.

Physical explanations in the sublunary realm revolved around tendencies.

How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys.

She seemed in utter oblivion of sublunary matters.

I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could easily furnish me with.

They are celestial bodies, not sublunary.

I am swallowed up in politics for the first, I hope for the last, time in my sublunary career.

Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological influences upon sublunary disasters?

Finally the gods, who were now seen as the angelic ministers of the One, transmitted the divine influence to the sublunary world of men.

Avicenna carried forward into the middle ages the Aristotelian idea of generation and corruption being limited to the sublunary sphere.

And am I not now dying a victim to the horror and the mystery of the wildest of all sublunary visions?

In such a state of mind, the imagination swells with great, but confused conceptions, to which no sublunary beauties or enjoyments can correspond.

As to the purposes of the world, man can only comprehend his own sublunary world, of which he forms the highest end as God's servant.

Sublunary Tragedies (1999)

Following Empedocles, all substances within the sublunary sphere were assumed to vary in their constituent classical elements of earth, water, air and fire.

The sublunary spheres corresponding to the four elements are succeeded in the superlunary region by the concentric spheres of the sun and planets.

The divine world-soul which reigns over the whole domain of sublunary changes he appears to have designated as the last Zeus, the last divine activity.