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ǁ Tellus. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. ǁ Tellus [L. tellūs.] In Roman mythology, the goddess of the earth; hence, the earth personified; the planet Earth, the terrestrial globe.

1 c. 1430.  Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 24. Tellus and Ymo be dullid of theire chere.

2 1602.  Shaks., Ham., III. ii. 166. Neptunes salt Wash and Tellus Orbed ground. Ibid. (1608), Per., IV. i. 14. I will rob Tellus of her weede.

3 1681.  Cotton, Wond. Peake (ed. 4), 28. The Spring swell’d by some smoaking Shower, That teeming Clouds on Tellus surface poure.

4 1738.  Gentl. Mag., VIII. 544/3. Reason, like Sol to Tellus kind, Ripens the products of the mind.

5 1818.  Keats, Endymion, III. 71. Tellus feels her forehead’s cumbrous load.

6 1890.  Laura E. Poor, Sanskrit, etc. (ed. 3), viii. 230. The act of sowing becomes the god Saturnus; field labor becomes the goddess Ops; the ground, the god Tellus.

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