adv. [f. TERRENE + -LY2.]

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  † 1.  As regards landed estate; territorially. Obs.

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c. 1475.  Partenay, 5014. I Hym make my proper enheritour, For yut shall he be wurthy terrenly.

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  2.  In a terrene manner; mundanely.

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a. 1638.  Mede, Wks. (1672), 290. Opposed … to an offering earthly and terrenely sanctified, as were the Typical Sacrifices of the Law by Fire and Bloud.

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1747.  Richardson, Clarissa (1810), I. xxxi. 213. Those confounded poets, with their terrenely celestial descriptions.

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1906.  Westm. Gaz., 9 April, 4/1. Let not thy plaited eyes be cast Terrenely on the pansied past.

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