[f. L. tellūr-em the earth + -IC.] Of or belonging to the earth, terrestrial; pertaining to the earth as a planet; also, of or arising from the earth or soil.
1822. Lond. Jrnl., Ser. I. IV. 112/2. The results are in favour of the opinion, that the stony meteoric masses are of telluric and not of cosmic origin.
1836. I. Taylor, Phys. The. Another Life, ii. 24. The equal periods that are marked for us by the celestial and telluric revolutions.
1842. United Service Mag., I. 289. The great problem of telluric magnetism.
1849. Sir J. Stephen, Eccl. Biog. (1850), II. 433. If my ideas had still obeyed those laws of association to which, in my telluric state, they had been subject.
1861. T. J. Graham, Pract. Med., 666. Epidemic influences … dependent in a great measure upon obscure atmospheric or telluric conditions.
1883. St. James’ Gaz., 21 Dec., 5/1. The spectrum … exhibits great breadth in the telluric or atmospheric lines,… due to aqueous vapours … in … the atmosphere.
1884. 19th Cent., Feb., 320. A ‘telluric poison’ is generated in it [the Campagna] by the energy of the soil.
