See Also: onycho-(medicine)
onycho-(dictionary)

sublunary (iou) and onycho- (iou)


sublunary (iou)



sublunary adjective & noun. L16.
[formed as SUBLUNAR: see -ARY2. Cf. SUPERLUNARY, TRANSLUNARY.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to this world; earthly, terrestrial. L16.
T. Hardy Climbing higher..and cutting himself off..from all intercourse with the sublunary world.
b. Of or pertaining to worldly affairs; material; temporal. M17.
A. West Mother's accounts..are expressive of her states of feeling rather than descriptions of actual sublunary occurrences.
Existing or situated beneath the moon; within the moon's orbit; subject to the moon's influence. E17.
D. Cupitt Beyond the atmosphere..a..sphere, filling out the rest of the sublunary realm.
b. Inferior, subordinate. E-M17.
b. noun.
A sublunary person or thing. Usu. in pl. M17-M18.
That which is sublunary. M20.
C. S. Lewis Aristotle's Nature..covers only the sublunary.

onycho- (iou)



onycho- combining form of Greek onukh-, onux nail, claw: see -O-.
onychogry'phosis noun [Greek gruposis hooking of the nails] Medicine gross thickening and curvature of one or more nails M19.
onychomancy noun (rare) divination from the fingernails M17.
onychomy'cosis noun, pl. -coses , Medicine fungal infection of a finger or toenail, causing brittleness and discoloration M19.
onychophagia the habit of biting one's nails E20.
onychophagist a person who bites his or her nails M19.