Adjective : fleeting, sublunary pleasure. From Dictionary.com.
The world is a world of consequences, and the consequences of our ignorance and imprudence would certainly provide a comprehensive theory to explain sublunar life. From Wordnik.com. [Many Happy Returns of the Day, a meditation of gradually increasing . . . length « Unknowing] Reference
Pythagorean opposites, and lists of sublunar substances. From Wordnik.com. [ASTROLOGY] Reference
He was above troubling himself with such sublunar matters. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
They are ordered in a rational system that governs the sublunar domain. From Wordnik.com. [Gersonides] Reference
The stars, he argues, exist for the sake of things in the sublunar world. From Wordnik.com. [Gersonides] Reference
Gersonides must be able to account for individual variety in the sublunar realm. From Wordnik.com. [Gersonides] Reference
Saturn, the fixed stars, and sometimes the lunar nodes — upon the sublunar world. From Wordnik.com. [ASTROLOGY] Reference
I find it hard to grasp how the Saviour could be born in the sublunar realm "under the law". From Wordnik.com. [Mythicism: Microexistence vs. Macroexistence?] Reference
Sure, Paul, Mark and the others got the UNIQUE divorce command from the sublunar realm too. From Wordnik.com. [Accusations and Assumptions: Another Mythicist-Creationist Parallel] Reference
The great comet of 1577 challenged the traditional sublunar location of these spectacular bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Giles and Henry disagreed, however, on the relationship existing between angelic and sublunar time. From Wordnik.com. [Giles of Rome] Reference
Though Doherty makes his case from other verses of Hebrews that it took place in the sublunar realm. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Mythical Messiah] Reference
All generation and corruption occurred in the 'sublunar' region, below the Moon and above the Earth. ". From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Watch] Reference
Avempace considers the Milky Way to be a phenomenon both of the spheres above the moon and of the sublunar region. From Wordnik.com. [Ibn Bajja] Reference
For Maimonides it is not possible that a greater entity, the heavens, would exist for the sake of the sublunar universe. From Wordnik.com. [Gersonides] Reference
He viewed the four sublunar elements as mutually transformable in a way analogous to the Heraclitean transformation of opposites. From Wordnik.com. [TIME] Reference
The interior had cooled and contracted, and as the solid crust was rigid enough to keep its place, great, sublunar caverns had been formed. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
In particular, Henry rejected Giles 'thesis that more instants of angelic time can correspond to one and the same instant of sublunar time. From Wordnik.com. [Giles of Rome] Reference
His predecessor Maimonides had claimed that no valid inference can be drawn from the nature of the sublunar sphere to that of the superlunar sphere. From Wordnik.com. [Gersonides] Reference
Finally, a wide variety of substances in the sublunar world and attributes of human character are rather arbitrarily associated with each of the signs. From Wordnik.com. [ASTROLOGY] Reference
Though he more nearly justified the confident declaration of his people, he but proved that there is no sublunar immortality, though in Egypt -- almost. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
However, for all things in the sublunar world there is danger that the needed attainment may fail to occur because of the concourse of indeterminable causes. From Wordnik.com. [FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE] Reference
At first his intervention in sublunar affairs was not frequent. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4] Reference
The four elements of the sublunar world are, fire, air, water, earth. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
All the objects of our experience in the sublunar world are not of this kind. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
The general process of the sublunar world is that of genesis and dissolution. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
Active Intellect embraces as its content the entire sublunar world in essence. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
Intellect, the last of the Intelligences, having in charge the sublunar world. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
This is another proof that they are not composed of the same material as sublunar bodies. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
It is clear from this account that matter and form are the bases of sublunar life and existence. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
All things of the sublunar world originate in matter, hence matter itself is the unoriginated, the eternal. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
From the Intelligence of the lunar sphere emanated the Active Intellect and the sublunar spheres of the four elements. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
Then the form united with the impure matter, and this gave rise to all the bodies in the sublunar world, which change their forms. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
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