▪ I. terrene, a.
(təˈriːn)
Forms: α. 4– terrene (6–8 terene, 7 terrhene). β. 5 terreyn, 6 -ein, -aine. γ. 6–7 terren.
[ult. ad. L. terrēn-us, f. terra earth; an Anglo-Fr. terrene occurs in Wright Lyric Poetry (Percy) 4. Stressed ˈterrene, and sometimes spelt terren, down to c 1700; but teˈrrene is instanced as early as 1635; ˈterrene in 1797 and 1865. (The 15–16th c. spellings in -ein, -eyn, -aine, suggest F. origin, and may have been influenced by F. terrain, or terrien.)]
1. Belonging to the earth or to this world; earthly; worldly, secular, temporal, material, human (as opposed to heavenly, eternal, spiritual, divine): = terrestrial 1.
| α 13.. K. Alis. 5685 Paradys terrene is riȝth in þe Est. 1509 Barclay Shyp Folys (1570) 192 From terrene lucre that day withdrawe thy minde. 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. Luke i. 17 All terrene or yearthly Kyngdomes. 1563 Homilies ii. Sacrament i. (1859) 443 Not as especially regarding the terene and earthly creatures which remain. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 153 Alacke our Terrene Moone is now Eclipst. 1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) Urania xxxii, To keepe their Queene secure from terrene treason. 1635 Quarles Embl. iv. i. (1718) 190 The common period of terrene conceit. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 301 They are in apparition terrhene Idolls. a 1711 Ken Wks. (1721) IV. 80 With zeal wash your own spirit clean From all concupiscence terrene. 1844 Mrs. Browning Catarina to Camoens xix, Whatsoever eyes terrene Be the sweetest his have seen. 1865 Swinburne Atalanta 525 Nearer than their life of terrene days. |
| β a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1906) 4 And yeuithe longe lyff and stont in this terreyn and wordly thing [F. choses mondaines et terriennes] like as hym lust. 1546 Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. iv. v. 89 To declare that thei oughte to reiect terrein and yearthly substaunce. 1576 R. Hill in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 305 You worldly wights, that haue your fancies fixt On slipper ioy of terraine pleasures here. |
| γ 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue 17 b, Our earthly and terren nature. 1620 J. Wilkinson Of Courts Leet 140 True faith and loialtie you shal beare of life, member, and terren honour. 1637 Heywood Dial. v. Wks. 1874 VI. 200 Bury the thoughts of all such terren drosse. |
2. Of the nature of earth (the substance); earthy.
| 1601 Holland Pliny ii. c. I. 44 Because ouermuch of the drie terrene element is mingled in it. 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 11 Here the soil is generally terrene or earthy. 1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 301 Combined with the finest particles of terrene matter the tidal waters could hold in suspension. 1863 J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. i. 2 The..aerial, aqueous, and terrene materials of the preëxistent earth. |
3. Occurring on or inhabiting the land as opposed to water: = terrestrial 5.
| 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Members common with the terrene quadrupeds. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. I. 20 These [shells]..are considered as substances entirely terrene. 1854 Brewster More Worlds iv. 86 In any terrene vertebrate. |
4. Of or pertaining to the earth (as a planet): = terrestrial 2.
| 1635 Swan Spec. M. (1670) 81 That the nature of the place above the Moon doth sufficiently deny the ascent of any terrene Exhalation. 1709–29 V. Mandey Syst. Math., Geogr. 595 Of the Dimension of the Terrene Globe. |
5. absol. or as n. a. The earth, the world. b. A land or territory; also fig.
| 1667 Milton P.L. vi. 78 Many a Province wide Tenfold the length of this terrene. 1735 Somerville Chase iv. 16 The teeming rav'nous Brutes Might fill the scanty Space of this Terrene. 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai ii. 474 The vast terrene, Hereby deep shaken to its extremest bounds. 1863 Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. ix. 215 That rich terrene of anthology, the pages of Shakespeare. 1894 R. J. Hinton in Voice (N.Y.) 18 Oct. 3/5 The conservation..of our..whole terrene—may yet be found through irrigation. |
▪ II. terrene
var. terrine, early f. tureen.