"terraqueous" meaning in English

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          "text": "Thus the vicissitudes of the land and ocean, portrayed in the tertiary formations, harmonise perfectly with other terraqueous phenomena of the same geological period.",
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          "text": "1884, John Addington Symonds \"Stella Maris,\" sonnet LIV in Vagabunduli Libellus, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., p. 64, https://books.google.ca/books?id=Oe4pAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nSpirit of light and darkness! I no less\nTwy-natured, but of more terraqueous mould,\nIn whom conflicting powers proportion hold\nWith poise exact, before thy proud excess\nOf beauty perfect and pure lawlessness\nQuail self-confounded; neither nobly bold\nTo dare for thee damnation, nor so cold\nAs to endure unscathed thy fiery stress."
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          "ref": "1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLIII, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles",
          "text": "[…] strange birds from behind the North Pole began to arrive silently on the upland of Flintcomb-Ash; gaunt spectral creatures with tragical eyes—eyes which had witnessed scenes of cataclysmal horror in inaccessible polar regions of a magnitude such as no human being had ever conceived, in curdling temperatures that no man could endure; which had beheld the crash of icebergs and the slide of snow-hills by the shooting light of the Aurora; been half blinded by the whirl of colossal storms and terraqueous distortions; and retained the expression of feature that such scenes had engendered.",
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          "text": "So, despite the obvious difficulties of crossing the intervening Sidlaws, correspondents to the Dundee newspapers in 1817 were advocating a \"terraqueous undertaking\" in the form of a canal from the town into Strathmore.",
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          "text": "When the projectile fell in the mortar with the end of the fuse left outside like a rat's tail, others, more experienced, put the brand to it and ... boom ... boom ... boom ... violent terraqueous explosions, followed by booming detonations high up in a vast sky now full of stars.",
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          "text": "The Terraqueous Globe comprehending Sea and Land, Rivers and Lakes, ſtands divided by modern Geographers into two Semi-Orbs, viz. the Old, and New World.",
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          "word": "aardwaterig"
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