subcelestial
English
Etymology
Adjective
subcelestial (not comparable)
- Beneath the heavens, i.e. on Earth.
- subcelestial glories
- subcelestial realm
- subcelestial vault
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The II. [Supposition] that Saint Peter’s Primacy with its Rights and Prerogatives was Not Personal but Derivable to his Successours]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 114:
- [H]e [an apostle] vvas (as S. Cyril calleth him) an Oecumenical Judge, and an Inſtructor of all the Subceleſtiall VVorld.
References
- “subcelestial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.