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Terrestriall, adj. Also: terrestrial(e, terrestryall, terestrall, terrestricall, terrestial. [Late ME and e.m.E. terrestrialle (1432-50), terrestrial (c1470), F. terrestriel, f. as Terrestre adj.] Earthly, of or pertaining to the earth. c1420 Wynt. i 117 (E) (see Terrestre adj.).
Terestrall c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 260.
Was thou [sc. Chaucer] noucht of oure Inglisch all the lycht, Surmounting eviry tong terrestriall, Alls fer as Mayes morow dois mydnycht? 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 270.
Under thy feit all thyng terrestryall Ar subiect to thy plesour a1570-86 Arbuthnot in Maitl. F. 61/177.
Desist … thi self for to torment For truble or for pane terrestriale Off thy estait stand … content Sen erthlie pleisour is bot bestiale 1657 Balfour Ann. II 72.
That terrestrial circkell quherin layes Noua Guinea [etc.] 1688 Sinclair Doctrine Sphere 27.
The brasen meridian in the celestial, or terrestial globe 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1933) 73.
A phantastic imitation of the actions of more terrestricall mortalls 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 216.
Wee then (the more terrestriall [people]) … do labour for that abstruse people, as well as for our selves