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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
worldly \world"ly\, a. as. woroldlic.
   1913 webster
   1. relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;
      worldly actions. "i thus neglecting worldly ends." --shak.
      1913 webster

            many years it hath continued, standing by no other
            worldly mean but that one only hand which erected
            it.                                   --hooker.
      1913 webster

   2. pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction
      from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this
      life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly
      pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.
      1913 webster

            with his soul fled all my worldly solace. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. lay, as opposed to clerical. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
worldly \world"ly\, adv.
   with relation to this life; in a worldly manner.
   1913 webster

         subverting worldly strong and worldly wise
         by simply meek.                          --milton.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
worldly
     adj 1: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly
            goods and advancement" ant: unworldly
     2: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in
        the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the
        ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his
        worldly wisdom" syn: blase
     3: concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords
        temporal and spiritual" syn: temporal
     also: worldliest, worldlier
see also:
unworldly blase temporal worldliest worldlier 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
83 moby thesaurus words for "worldly":
   philistine, banausic, blase, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded,
   corporal, corporeal, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, disenchanted,
   disillusioned, down-to-earth, earthly, earthy, experienced,
   fleshly, hardheaded, hylic, knowing, material, materialistic,
   materiate, matter-of-fact, mature, matured, mondaine, mundane,
   nonsacred, nonspiritual, not born yesterday, old, physical,
   positivistic, practical, practical-minded, practiced, pragmatic,
   profane, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, reprobate, ripe,
   ripened, sagacious, sane, scientific, scientistic, seasoned,
   secular, sensible, sensual, sober-minded, somatic, sophisticate,
   sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking,
   substantial, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial,
   tried, tried and true, unblessed, unhallowed, unholy, unideal,
   unidealistic, unregenerate, unromantic, unsacred, unsanctified,
   unsentimental, unspiritual, veteran, world-wise, worldly-wise





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