a. Obs. rare. [f. next, with filial from filius.] Earthly, worldly, sordid. So Terræfilian a., of or pertaining to a terræ filius.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., VIII. 277. Men of the world, the terræfilial breed, Welcome the modest stranger to their sphere.
1783. Burns, Lett. to J. Murdoch, 15 Jan. Can he descend to mind the paltry concerns about which the terræfilial race fret, and fume…?
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., x. (1894), 364. His merits as well as his faults have a singular unpersonal, and, if I may so say, terræfilian connotation.
