terrene
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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
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For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
God the First cause!—in this terrene abode Young Nature lisps, she is the child of God.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus
It is a picture of the coronation of George V. by one Fernand Piret, a French aviator—so the story goes—who never before dabbled in terrene arts.
From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive
It assumes a subliminal self, with unknown faculties, originated in some unknown way, and not merely by contact with the needs which the terrene organism has had to meet.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)