Terrestrial: adj. (word from the Latin terrestris "earth").
The adjective "terrestrial" has several meanings:
1. Opposed to celestial: Of the world in which the human being lives; from down here.
Earthly paradise.
Earth life.
Earthly, temporal, material things.
Quotation from the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): “In the terrestrial stay”.
Quotation from the French writer Stendhal (1783-1842): “The perfect abnegation of earthly advantages necessary for a priest”.
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