sublunar

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And if so, neither can the sublunar order be destroyed, which is the work of the heavenly bodies.

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  1. Situated beneath or nearer than the moon. This vast sublunar vault. Milton, P. L., iv. 777. The city's moonlit spires and myriad lamps Like stars in a sublunar sky did glow. Shelley, Revolt of Islam, v. 1.

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  1. = French sublunaire = Spanish Portuguese sublunar = Italian sullunare, from Latin sub, under, + luna, the moon: see lunar.
 

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