Terrestrially

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  1.  In a terrestrial manner; after the manner of earthly or worldly things.

1604.  Drayton, Moses, II. 366. These plagues seem yet but nourished beneath, And even with man terrestrially to move.

1664.  H. More, Exp. 7 Epist., vii. 112. [They] grosly and carnally erre touching the nature of the Resurrection-Body,… phansying it as terrestrially modify’d.

1794.  R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., II. 261. The representations of Moses and the Prophets were at times so figurative, and I hope I may be forgiven, if I say, so terrestrially gross, that they were accused of being Anthropomorphites.

1821.  Examiner, 220/2. Our own terrestrially transient duration.

  2.  As regards the ground or soil.

1857.  T. Moore, Handbk. Brit. Ferns (ed. 3), 19. Indication that the locality is moist, either atmospherically or terrestrially, or both.

  So Terrestrialness rare (Bailey, vol. II., 1727).