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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Earthly \Earth"ly\, adjective
1. Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.
This earthly load Of death, called life. --Milton.
Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. --Phil. iii. 19.
2. Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
What earthly benefit can be the result? --Pope.
3. Made of earth; earthy. [Obs.] --Holland.
Syn: Gross; material; sordid; mean; base; vile; low; unsubstantial; temporary; corrupt; groveling.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Earthly \Earth"ly\, adverb In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
Took counsel from his guiding eyes To make this wisdom earthly wise. --Emerson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
earthly
adjective: of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home" [ant: {heavenly}] [also: {earthliest}, {earthlier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthly": Philistine, base, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded, conceivable, corporal, corporeal, earth, earthbound, earthy, feasible, fleshly, fluvioterrestrial, geophilous, human, hylic, imaginable, likely, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane, natural, nonspiritual, physical, possible, potential, profane, secular, sensual, somatic, subastral, sublunar, substantial, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unspiritual, worldly
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