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Meanings of cislunar in English

Situated between the earth and the moon.

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Examples for "sublunary"
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Providence has a hand in this, as in all other sublunary dispensations.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 18...
2
Then they will rule all that is the province of the sublunary.
Blood and Bone
3
The Princess thought that, of all sublunary things, knowledge was the best.
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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Alas, my friend, the greatest sublunary happiness is not untinged with misfortune.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II; Or, The History of the Count de...
5
I said-lastsublunary revolution, and this idea awakened many strange ideas.
The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy
1
At first his intervention in sublunar affairs was not frequent.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
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All things sublunar can be translated into terms of woman.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
3
It was declared that, while some comets were doubtless supralunar, some must be sublunar.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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He was above troubling himself with such sublunar matters.
Framley Parsonage
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This was no sublunar apparition, no dreamy vision of Domination standing face to face with nocturnal Paris.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5
Usage of cislunar in English
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The fleet will be fighting a holding action until the cislunar sphere is completed.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Suddenly all of the torchship and cislunar remote holos glowed violet, red, and white.
The Hyperion Cantos
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We have cleared cislunar space and will be out of Hyperion's critical gravity well within ten minutes.
The Hyperion Cantos
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The inversion core went from a sedate cislunar orbital velocity to point nine nine lightspeed in less than half a second.
The evolutionary void
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The Ouster swarm then put more than three thousand ships into Bressia's cislunar space and began the systematic reduction of all planetary defenses.
The Hyperion Cantos
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He had to move around cislunar space in small swallows so that his distortion field could complete a clean sweep above the planet.
The Naked God
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"Forward elements of the Swarm now entering cislunar defense perimeter."
The Hyperion Cantos
Cislunar through the time