subcelestial

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ celestial.

Adjective

subcelestial (not comparable)

1. Beneath the heavens.

   subcelestial glories

   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The II. [Supposition] that Saint Peter’s Primacy with its Rights and Prerogatives was Not Personal but Derivable to his Successours]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 114:

     [H]e [an apostle] vvas (as S. Cyril calleth him) an Oecumenical Judge, and an Inſtructor of all the Subceleſtiall VVorld.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subcelestial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)