Hypertext Webster Gateway: "worldly"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Worldly \World"ly\, adv.
With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply
meek. --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Worldly \World"ly\, a. [AS. woroldlic.]
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims;
worldly actions. ``I thus neglecting worldly ends.''
--Shak.

Many years it hath continued, standing by no other
worldly mean but that one only hand which erected
it. --Hooker.

2. 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.

With his soul fled all my worldly solace. --Shak.

3. Lay, as opposed to clerical. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

worldly
adj 1: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly
goods and advancement" [ant: {unworldly}]
2: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in
the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the
ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his
worldly wisdom" [syn: {blase}]
3: concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords
temporal and spiritual" [syn: {temporal}]


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