terrene
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Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The liquid ether high above he spread, Light, calm, and undefil'd by dregs terrene.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
It was quite wonderful to hear such a stream of learning, and to see, at the same time, the vigour of these terrene philosophers in polishing their specimens upon a whetstone, laid upon their knees.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
It assumes a subliminal self, with unknown faculties, originated in some unknown way, and not merely by contact with the needs which the terrene organism has had to meet.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)