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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
earthly \earth"ly\, adv.
   in the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
   1913 webster

         took counsel from his guiding eyes
         to make this wisdom earthly wise.        --emerson.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
earthly \earth"ly\, a.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            this earthly load
            of death, called life.                --milton.
      1913 webster

            whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly
            things.                               --phil. iii.
                                                  19.
      1913 webster

   2. of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
      1913 webster

            what earthly benefit can be the result? --pope.
      1913 webster

   3. made of earth; earthy. obs. --holland.

   syn: gross; material; sordid; mean; base; vile; low;
        unsubstantial; temporary; corrupt; groveling.
        1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
earthly
     adj : 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" ant: heavenly
     also: earthliest, earthlier
see also:
heavenly earthliest earthlier 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
44 moby thesaurus words for "earthly":
   philistine, base, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded, conceivable,
   corporal, corporeal, earth, earthbound, earthy, feasible, fleshly,
   fluvioterrestrial, geophilous, human, hylic, imaginable, likely,
   material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane, natural,
   nonspiritual, physical, possible, potential, profane, secular,
   sensual, somatic, subastral, sublunar, substantial, tellurian,
   telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, unspiritual,
   worldly





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