a. Obs. [f. L. terrestri-s terrestrial + -OUS: cf. illustrious.]
1. Having the nature of earth; earthy.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, III. xlix. 539. [The] terrestrious and earthie temperature which all sorts of peares doe much consist of.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 322. Beside the fixed and terrestrious Salt, there is in naturall bodies a Sal niter referring unto Sulphur.
1741. Monro, Anat. Nerves (ed. 3), 25. Saline and terrestrious Particles.
2. Of or consisting of the land surface of the earth.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. ii. (1650), 49. This variation proceedeth not only from terrestrious eminencies, and magnetical veins of earth laterally respecting the needle.
1862. Marsh, Lect. Eng. Lang, 24. The geographical centre of the terrestrious portion of the globe.
3. Of, pertaining to, or inhabiting the land; = TERRESTRIAL 5.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxiv. 169. Some [animals] in the Sea … hold those shapes which terrestrious formes approach not. Ibid., 170. That nomenclature of Adam, which unto terrestrious animalls assigned a name appropriate unto their natures.
