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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Apollion: I have, Lord Belzebub, The low terrene observed with keenest eye.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
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 Erasmus Darwin
The earliest terrene object which we behold is a light-house some sixty miles out at sea, whose occupants, we hope, are not resolutely bent upon social enjoyment.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
For it denies that all human faculties must have been evoked by terrene experience.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers