Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to inherited nature and ordinary conditions: humorously distinguished from
transcendental .
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Examples
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"Father, it would not require much stretch of imagination to believe that, by some descendental metempsychosis, I had become an exhumed member of the sacred gnomides, torn ruthlessly from my sisterhood in Cerro do Frio or the cold dreary caverns of the Agathyrsi."
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864
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