sublunary /sʌbˈluːnəɹi/adjective 4noun 2forms 1 adjective4 •(literary, historical) Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between the moon and the earth.Patritius [Franciscus Patricius?] doth not onely auerre this, but that the Sea is as a sublunarie Planet, mouing it selfe, and moued by the superiour bodies to effect the generation of things: […] — 1614 •(literary) In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.Dull sublunary lovers love / (VVhose soule is sense) cannot admit / Absence, because it doth remove / Those things vvhich elemented it. — 1611 •(literary) Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred, or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.Whither now, O whither do ye rove, O my thoughts? Can ye hope to find rest, in any of these sublunary contentments? — 1648 •(literary, figurative) Inferior, subordinate. noun[in the plural]2 •A person or thing which is of the (material) world.She vvas soaring upvvard to her native skies. She vvas got above earth, by means, too, of the Earth-born: And something extraordinary vvas to be done to keep her vvith us Sublunaries. — 1748 •A less important person; an inferior, a subordinate. formssublunaries
