Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Worldly

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Worldly


Subjects in this Topic:

(1):

(a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.

(2):

(a.) Lay, as opposed to clerical.

(3):

(adv.) With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

(4):

(a.) Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.