subastraladj.
/sʌbˈastr(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈæstrəl/ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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