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terrene

[te-reen, tuh-, ter-een] / tɛˈrin, tə-, ˈtɛr in /


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Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.

From Time Magazine Archive

By perfecting a method for changing matter from terrene to contraterrene, we have managed to bridge the million light years of space separating our worlds as we saw fit.

From Twelve Times Zero by Howard Browne

If the tendency to torpor of some viscus is considerable, this will be increased at the time, when the terrene gravitation is greatest, as explained in the introduction to Class IV.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

When the contraterrene lead atoms met the terrene lead atoms, mutual annihilation resulted, giving us pure energy.

From Islands of Space by John Wood Campbell

The object of the Lesser Mysteries was to signify occultly the condition of the impure soul invested with a terrene body and merged in a material nature.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright




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