1. An inhabitant of the earth.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 124. Wee (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmost subiects.
c. 1630. Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 31/1.
| Nature gaz’d on with such a curious Eye, | |
| That Earthlings oft her deem’d a Deity. |
1819. H. Busk, Vestriad, III. 176. Shall we … in absence be betray’d, Like puny earthlings by a faithless maid?
1839. Bailey, Festus, xxiii. (1848), 297. Behold this earthling standing by my side.
2. One who is earthly in mind or disposition.
1615. Rowlands, Melanch. Knt., 35. I haue interiour excellence that shines Beyond your earthlings gold and siluer mines.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., V. 148. It is not gold or silver that the earthlings of this world seek after.
1866. Alger, Solit. Nat. & Man, II. 60. The cold earthlings who form the various embodiments of selfishness.
