a. and sb. [ad. mod.L. sublūnār-is (cf. late Gr. ὑποσέληνος ὑποσελήνιος): see SUB- 1 a and LUNAR. Cf. F. sublunaire, etc.]
A. adj. = SUBLUNARY A. Now rare.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. iv. (1611), 94. Those cœlestiall creatures … being void of this corrupt mixture which is found in all creatures sublunar.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 777. Now had night measur’d with her shaddowie Cone Half way up Hill this vast Sublunar Vault.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 85. 3/1. That all Sublunar Joys duration want.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam., V. i. The City’s moonlit spires and myriad lamps, Like stars in a sublunar sky did glow.
a. 1857. D. Jerrold, John Applejohn, iv. To expire covered over with wounds was the only really desirable way of going out of this sublunar world.
† B. sb. = SUBLUNARY B. Obs.
1613. Campion, Relat. Roy. Entert., Descr. View these heau’n borne Starres, Who by stealth are become Sublunars.
1684. Gadbury (title), Cardines Cœli: or, an appeal to … observers of sublunars and their vicissitudes.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. iii. 180. The moon could claim no interest upon her Vicinity to us Sublunars.
