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How To Use sublunary In A Sentence

• Death is, as one of the ancients observes, [Greek: to ton phoberon phoberotaton], _of dreadful things the most dreadful_: an evil, beyond which nothing can be threatened by sublunary power, or feared from human enmity or vengeance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
• He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense.
• Thus the impure sublunary fire conveys neither heat nor light, but as it kindles upon some earthly materials of wood, stubble, or the like; but the nobler and celestial fire in the body of the sun, that works all these effects by a communication of its own virtue, without the interposal of those culinary helps: it affords flame and light, and warmth and all, without fuel. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
• transcendental motives for sublunary actions
• Seigl had imagined it as the verbal approximation of memory, experienced in an undersea, undulating zone of sublunary consciousness. THE TATTOOED GIRL
• Dante transports an earthly historicity into his heaven and hell, in an idiom which is both sublime and sublunary.
• find transcendental motives for sublunary action
• But the third verse whams in with "another country", namely heaven – thus not only annoying those of other religions and none, but implying that sublunary patriotism may be subject to overrule by the man upstairs. So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse?
• 'By us sublunary thy will be done ... with viands meet thy humble creatures bless.' The Reverend D Hughes, MA, Poems on Various Subjects in English and Latin (1865)
• The laicization and secularizing of death stemming from the Scientific Revolution led to sublimation of the belief in a divine afterlife into the prospect of a sublunary life extension.