Definitions for earthly
ˈɜrθ liearth·ly

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. earthlyadjective

   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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. earthlynoun

   A slightest chance (of success etc.) or idea (about something).

2. earthlyadverb

   in an earthy manner

3. earthlyadjective

   Relating to the earth or this world, as opposed to heaven.

4. Etymology: eorþlic, corresponding to.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Earthlyadjective

   Etymology: from earth.

   1. Not heavenly; vile; mean; sordid.

   But I remember now
   I’m in this earthly world, where to do harm
   Is often laudable; to do good, sometime
   Accounted dangerous folly. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   When faith and love, which parted from thee never,
   Had ripen’d thy just soul to dwell with God,
   Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load
   Of death, call’d life. John Milton.

   2. Belonging only to our present state; not spiritual.

   Our common necessities, and the lack which we all have as well of ghostly as of earthly favours, is in each kind easily known. Richard Hooker.

   You have scarce time
   To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span,
   To keep your earthly audit. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   It must be our solemn business and endeavour, at fit seasons, to turn the stream of our thoughts from earthly towards divine objects. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

   3. Corporeal; not mental.

   Great grace that old man to him given had,
   For God he often saw, from heaven hight,
   All were his earthly eyen both blunt and bad. Fairy Queen.

   Sudden he view’d, in spite of all her art,
   An earthly lover lurking at her heart. Alexander Pope, Ra. of the Lock.

   4. Any thing in the world; a female hyperbole.

   Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
   Charm’d the small-pox, or chas’d old age away,
   Who would not scorn what housewife’s cares produce?
   Or who would learn one earthly thing of use? Alexander Pope.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Earthlyadjective

   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

2. Earthlyadjective

   of all things on earth; possible; conceivable

3. Earthlyadjective

   made of earth; earthy

4. Earthlyadverb

   in the manner of the earth or its people; worldly

Anagrams for earthly »

1. lathery

2. heartly

3. rathely

How to pronounce earthly?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of earthly in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of earthly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of earthly in a Sentence

1. Bobby Jindal:

   The Supreme Court decision today conveniently and not surprisingly follows public opinion polls, and tramples on states' rights that were once protected by the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, marriage between a man and a woman was established by God, and no earthly court can alter that.

2. Plato:

   Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

3. Eugene Botkin:

   My voluntary confinement here is restricted less by time than by my earthly existence. In essence I am dead -- dead for my children -- dead for my work ... I am dead but not yet buried, or buried alive -- whichever, the consequences are nearly identical ...

4. Homer, The Odyssey:

   Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

5. Leatrice Eiseman:

   This belief started in ancient times, as it was seen as the color reflective of love, both earthly and heavenly. Greek muses wore orange, as did Bacchus, the pagan Roman god, in general terms, a color ascribed to a god perpetuated the hope and belief of immortality.

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