In looking for the antecedents of influenza, he kept in view the greater telluric changes and convulsions, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Something broad, comprehensive, steady from age to age, telluric if not cosmic, must be sought for.
On the other hand, we have now a scientific doctrine of the effects of great fluctuations of the ground-water upon the production of telluric miasmata, which may be used to rationalize the theory of emanations adopted by Sydenham and Boyle.
It is not surprising that for such a disease something telluric or even cosmic should have been assigned as the cause, something as occasional as itself, phenomenal, if not cataclysmic.
Although it has but a feeble attraction for bases, telluric acid forms salts which are called tellurates.
The telluric acid occurs in hexagonal prismatic crystals, which, when heated usually to redness, becoming converted into telluric anhydride, which then assumes an orange-yellow colour.
It would then follow that the concurrence of suitable meteorologic and telluric conditions with sufficient time for its growth and maturity were merely accessories to its perfect development.
The investigation and measurement of this force by the oscillations of a vertical or horizontal needle have only excited a general and lively interest in its telluric relations since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The proofs of the telluric and atmospheric origin of aUerolites, which it is attempted to base upon the oryctognostic analogies presented by these bodies, do not appear to me to possess any great weight.
Hence, among the Greek philosophers, we find four hypotheses regarding the origin of falling stars: a telluric origin from ascending exhalations; masses of stone raised by hurricane (see Aristot.
The delineation of the principal characteristics of telluric phenomena must begin with the form of our planet and its relations in space.
Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence.
Or if telluric acid be submitted to the reduction flame upon the loop of a platinum wire, it communicates to the outer flame the bright green of tellurium.
The yellow oxide obtained upon charcoal gives the bismuth reaction, and the white incrustation of bismuth and telluric acid.
Telluric acid produces the same reactions with the blowpipe reagents as tellurous acid.
The oxide of tellurium and telluric acid gives a clear bead when it is hot, but white after it is cooled.
If telluric acid is heated gently in a closed tube, it loses water and turns yellow.
Are not certain pestilential diseases propagated by the air alone, being carried in fixed telluric directions, without material contact or pollution?
Telluric acid is reduced to tellurous (with evolution of chlorine) on boiling with hydrochloric acid.
The nitric acid used should be free from hydrochloric, sulphuric, iodic and telluric acids.
Well, we are here in the stronghold of thesetelluric forces.
I often hear you talking of your belief in certain telluric forces that must have most power among the mountains where they first had play, and where earth is not only beneath, but is above you and around you.
In the solar spectrum, examined from that eminence, oxygen-absorption was so much enfeebled as to leave no possible doubt of its purely telluric origin.
This, however, would be difficult of reconcilement with Keeler's identification of an absorption-group in the yellow with a telluric waterband.
The telluric lines, meanwhile, remained unaffected, so as to be "virtually mapped" by the process.
He then attempted to prove to me how these extra-telluric influences, have also dominion over the phenomena of mind, because man, being a product not only of the earth but of the universe, is influenced by the stars as well as the earth.
I wonder where he is today, and I hope sincerely that the stars and all other extra-telluric powers, have been very kind and generous to him.
All these theories go upon the assumption that living material has been continuous in telluric time—i.
The more, then, the telluric ground is drained Of heat, the colder grows the water hid Within the earth.
Thus, this telluric earth Out-streams with all these dread effluvia And breathes them out into the open world And into the visible regions under heaven.
In yet another way the same forces function as movers and stirrers of the macro-telluric processes of the earth, and beyond this of the happenings in the body of our planetary system, including the movements of the various planets.
Seismology will not be able to make any serious progress until it has at its disposal very certain and very numerous data as to telluric movements registered at a large number of points at once by accurate instruments.
Telluric waves, according to modern observations, almost invariably in every region follow two directions that cross each other at right angles.
It is a new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of the earth.
Some conservative meteorologists kept up the argument for the telluric origin for some decades to come, as a matter of course--such a band trails always in the rear of progress.
But the theory of telluric origin of aerolites was by no means so easily disposed of.
It thus appeared that the prevalence of water in a vaporous and liquid rather than in a "permanently" gaseous condition here on the globe is a mere incident of telluric evolution.
But it is our firm conviction that the endemic form of criminality, insanity, and suicide will disappear, and that nothing will remain of them but rare sporadic forms caused by lesion or telluric and other influences.
For the economic conditions are a result of favorable or unfavorable telluric conditions which are acted upon by the intelligence and energy of a certain race.
This misunderstanding was explained at the congress of Geneva by the statement that the interaction of the social and telluric environment is required also in the case of the born criminal.
There are, furthermore, the telluric factors, that is to say, the physical environment in which we live and to which we pay no attention.
These are natural causes, which I have classified under the three heads of anthropological, telluric and social.
The work of the legislator may be slow, difficult, and inadequate, so far as the telluric and anthropological factors are concerned.
The study of collective society or of the single individual has resulted in the understanding that the life of society and of the individual is always the product of the inextricable net of the anthropological, telluric and social elements.
We have now demonstrated that crime has its natural source in the combined interaction of three classes of causes, the anthropological (organic and psychological) factor, the telluric factor, and the social factor.
Of course, the influence of either the anthropological or telluric or social element varies from case to case.
We must add the anthropological and telluric factor.
In order that crime may develop, it is necessary that anthropological, social and telluric factors should act together.
Take away the coal mines (the telluric environment), and you could not have the economic conditions of England as they are.
The influence of the telluric factors, then, cannot be denied, and the influence of the social factor intensifies it, as I have already shown by its most drastic and characteristic example, that of want.
The insect tribe was wonderfully called into life, as if animated beings were destined to complete the destruction which astral and telluric powers had began.
As extraordinary atmospheric and telluric phenomena preceded the Plague in the time of Justinian, so do we find similar instances recorded as the precursor of a similar visitation 700 years later.
In recent times a good deal has been said of the cosmical, sidereal, and telluric life of man.
He classifies these under four heads: (1) Kaolinization, or the decomposition of felspathic and similar rocks by the action of telluric water containing active gases in solution.
Clays produced by telluric water containing active gases (hypogenically formed clays)--as Cornish china clay.
The insect tribe was wonderfully called into life, as if animated beings were destined to complete the destruction which astral and telluric powers had begun.
The endemy originates, according to him, only in local telluric changes--in deleterious influences which develop themselves in the earth and in the water, without a corruption of the air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telluric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: earth; earthbound; earthly; earthy; mundane; terrestrial; worldly
