earthly-mindedadj.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Phil. iii. 19 For many walke..euen enemies of the crosse of Christ, whose ende is damnacion, whose God is the bely, & whose glory shalbe to their shame, which are earthly mynded.

1584 T. Lodge Alarum against Vsurers sig. Fiii Those that are earthly minded, sauour not the things that are of God.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 93 A very earthly-minded Man, and too much sighted into this lower World.

1782 J. Brown Brief View Figures ii. vii. 171 How mean, weak, insignificant, and earthly-minded are they!

1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain iii. iii. 315 He, earthly-minded youth, had been looking down into the deep, gas-lit, dark shadowed quadrangles, and wondering if he should ever be Fellow of this or that College.

1991 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 Mar. b3 They are so earthly minded, they are of no use to heaven or to anyone on Earth.

1587 R. Rogers Diary 22 Dec. in Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 72 Much more dullnes, unprofit[ableness], earthlymind[edness], wandr[ing] after foly, unaptnes to study, feare of breaking of my course.]

1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. v. xiii. f. 485 Earthly-mindednesse is another streame running from this fountaine, when we are drawne to the loue of the commodities of this world, and are led with a desire of growing rich.

1781 T. Bennet Serm. xii. 290 The soul espoused to Christ, is at war with itself, with the remaining legality, carnality and earthly mindedness of the heart.

1880 Musical Times & Singing Class Circular 21 113/1 It would be..easy..for the serious musician to..moralise on the earthly-mindedness of particular audiences in New York and in London.

1991 P. Heinegg tr. W. Jens & H. Küng Lit. & Relig. 157 Self-interest, greed, the laziness of the clergy, covetousness, and the earthlymindedness of people in general prepared the end for the ‘first love’ of the High Middle Ages.