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
The specialised forms of terrene perception were not real novelties in the universe, but imperfect adaptations of protoplasm to the manifestation of the indwelling general perceptive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
If the tendency to torpor of some viscus is considerable, this will be increased at the time, when the terrene gravitation is greatest, as explained in the introduction to Class IV.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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