a. [f. L. terra earth + AQUEOUS. Cf. F. terraqué(e (Voltaire, Memnon, 1747) from Eng.; so Sp. (el globo) terrácueo.]
1. Consisting of, or formed of, land and water; nearly always in terraqueous globe.
1658. Phillips, Terraqueous, composed of earth and water together.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., II. 99. The halituous Effluxions and Aporrhœa’s of this terraqueous Globe below.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iii. § 37. 171. The whole terrestrial (or terraqueous) Globe.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., I. 286. A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man!
1781. Cowper, Charity, 122. Providence enjoins to every soul An union with the vast terraqueous whole.
1834–5. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop., VI. 701/1, margin. Relation of terraqueous agencies in ancient and modern eras.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., iii. 72. The maintenance of a habitable terraqueous surface.
2. Living in land and water, as a plant; extending over land and water, as a journey.
1694. Westmacott, Script. Herb., 164. These Reeds belong to the terraqueous plants.
1844. Jeffrey, in Ld. Cockburn, Life (1852), II. Let. clxxiv. We drove down to the pier and resumed our terraqueous promenade.
