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
Even so, one may say, the influence of the ultra-intellectual or supernormal faculties upon our welfare as terrene organisms is less marked in common life than the influence of the organic or subnormal faculties.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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
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)
The specialised forms of terrene perception were not real novelties in the universe, but imperfect adaptations of protoplasm to the manifestation of the indwelling general perceptive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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