| 单词 |
terrestrious |
| 释义 |
† teˈrrestrious, a. Obs.
[f. L. terrestri-s terrestrial + -ous: cf. illustrious.]
1. Having the nature of earth; earthy.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xlix. 539 [The] terrestrious and earthie temperature which all sorts of peares doe much consist of. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 322 Beside the fixed and terrestrious Salt, there is in naturall bodies a Sal niter referring unto Sulphur. 1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 25 Saline and terrestrious Particles.
2. Of or consisting of the land surface of the earth.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. ii. (1650) 49 This variation proceedeth not only from terrestrious eminencies, and magnetical veins of earth laterally respecting the needle. 1862Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 24 The geographical centre of the terrestrious portion of the globe.
3. Of, pertaining to, or inhabiting the land; = terrestrial 5.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxiv. 169 Some [animals] in the Sea..hold those shapes which terrestrious formes approach not. Ibid. 170 That nomenclature of Adam, which unto terrestrious animalls assigned a name appropriate unto their natures. |
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