单词 | subastral |
释义 | subastraladj. 1. Existing or occurring beneath the stars or (in ancient and medieval cosmology) below the sphere of the fixed stars; (hence also) terrestrial, earthly. Cf. sublunary adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [adjective] earthlyOE netherOE lowc1225 terrene13.. terrestre1340 temporalc1380 earthyc1429 terrestrialc1460 inferial?a1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 earthish?1533 terrenala1555 terreal1598 terrestrene1599 sublunary1609 sublunar1610 mundal1614 temporarya1616 earth-born1626 terranean1653 circumterraneous1678 subcelestial1706 terraneousa1711 terrean1714 terrigenal1744 subastral1752 geotic1755 tellurian1786 worldly1812 telluric1813 transglobal1953 1752 W. Warburton Serm. Psalm cxliv. 3 He compares this subastral œconomy with the systems of the fixed stars. 1867 Ersilia xiv. 142 Those who commune much with God and His revelations of Himself through Nature in this sub-astral world. 1883 Art Loan Rec. (Detroit) 17 Oct. 134/1 The blue dome that arches above all seems but the subastral screen of the glories beyond. 1900 F. R. Stockton Bicycle of Cathay xi. 142 Miss Edith asked me if I would not like to take a walk and look at the stars... I assented most willingly to a sub-astral promenade. 1913 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. 38 320 We brave the fury of a merciless tempest to view the most sublime cyclorama of the subastral world. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 54 131/1 A strange funerary stele represents symbolically the superimposed ‘spheres’ (air, water) which the soul traverses before finding rest in the subastral regions. 2. In various forms of mysticism: designating or relating to the lower part of the astral plane or realm. ΚΠ 1888 H. P. Blavatsky Secret Doctr. II. 621 (note) The spheres of action of the combined forces of Evolution and Karma are (1) the Super-spiritual;..(2) the Spiritual; (3) the Psychic; (4) the Astro-ethereal; (5) the Sub-astral; (6) the Vital; and (7) the purely physical spheres. 1911 The Word Feb. 271 The nature of the phenomena depend largely on the particular sub-astral plane to which the medium has access. 1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test xxi. 289 It's so fascinating to be here in subastral projection. 2000 S. S. Subramuniyaswami Loving Ganesa (ed. 2) 458 Hell is a state of mind that can be experienced on the plane of physical existence or in the sub-astral plane (Naraka). 3. = substellar adj. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [adjective] > position sublunar1892 substellar1892 subastral1906 1906 W. C. P. Muir Treat. Navigation xix. 590 This point is the geographical position of the body; for the sun, it may be called the subsolar point, for any other heavenly body, the subastral point. 1978 Solar Energy 21 202/1 Conventionally, local time, t, is zero when the subastral point of the Sun is on the antimeridian of the observer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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