† ˌterræˈfilial, a. Obs. rare.
[f. next, with filial from filius.]
Earthly, worldly, sordid. So ˌterræˈfilian a., of or pertaining to a terræ filius.
| 1742 Young Nt. Th. viii. 277 Men of the world, the terræ⁓filial breed, Welcome the modest stranger to their sphere. 1783 Burns Let. to J. Murdoch 15 Jan., Can he descend to mind the paltry concerns about which the terræfilial race fret, and fume..? 1887 Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. x. (1894) 364 His merits as well as his faults have a singular unpersonal, and, if I may so say, terræfilian connotation. |