单词 | preterrestrial |
释义 | > as lemmaspreterrestrial preterrestrial adj. Brit. /ˌpriːtᵻˈrɛstrɪəl/ , /ˌpriːtɛˈrɛstrɪəl/ , U.S. /ˌpritəˈrɛstriəl/ existing or occurring prior to the Earth or before the Biblical creation.ΚΠ 1869 C. F. Winslow Force & Nature 42 This wonderful fact.., vast in its significancy as the movements of matter and the action of universal forces in pre-terrestrial time. 1894 E. K. Mitchell tr. C. G. A. von Harnack Outl. Hist. Dogma App. i. 322 The old idea of preterrestrial existence with God. 1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) xv. 115 A radioactive isotope of very long life which was produced in pre-terrestrial times. 1999 M. R. Allen in R. H. Popkin Columbia Hist. Western Philos. 301 Aristotle asserts in the Generation of Animals that the rational soul originates outside the body, yet elsewhere he criticizes Plato for arguing that when the soul learns, it recalls what it knew in a preterrestrial state. < as lemmas |
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