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noun

Tellurian n.

A dweller on the earth.

An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. (Written also tellurion)

adjective

Tellurian adj. Of or pertaining to the earth.

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... his mental trigger and he knew the exact velocity he would require. His hand swept over the studs, his right foot tramped down, hard, upon the firing lever; and, even as the quivering flitter shot forward under eight Tellurian gravities of acceleration, he knew to the thousandth of a second how long he would have to hold that acceleration to attain that velocity. While not really long—in seconds—it was much too long for comfort. It took him much closer to the vortex ...

— The Vortex Blaster • Edward Elmer Smith

... Mammal differed from the Apes; and if we found that these were of less structural value, than those which distinguish certain members of the Ape order from others universally admitted to be of the same order, we should undoubtedly place the newly discovered tellurian genus with them. ...

— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley

... women, going, going, and all but gone. 'Hair like arctic snows, failure of vital heat, palsy that shakes the head as in the porcelain toys on our mantel-pieces, asthma that shakes the whole fabric—these they absolutely fancy themselves to see. They absolutely hear the tellurian lungs wheezing, panting, crying, 'Bellows to mend!' periodically as the ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... outline of the crust of the earth, so far as it has been possible to observe it. It exhibits extraordinary signs of commotion and vicissitude; the lowest rocks indicating a previous condition of igneous fusion; those above them of aqueous solution. Fire and water have thus been the chief tellurian anarchists, and the shaking of continents and the constant shifting of level in sea and land still continue to attest their restless energies. That igneous matter has, during many periods, been protruded from below—that mountains have risen in succession from the sea, and injected their molten ...

— An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" • Anonymous

... them, all the characters by which our new mammal differed from the apes; and if we found that these were of less structural value than those which distinguish certain members of the ape order from others universally admitted to be of the same order, we should undoubtedly place the newly discovered tellurian genus with them." ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell