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Vulcanian, a. (n.)|vʌlˈkeɪnɪən|
Also 7 -ean.
[f. L. Vulcāni-us, f. Vulcān-us Vulcan n. Cf. F. vulcanien.]
1. a. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, Vulcan.
1602F. Herring tr. Oberndorffer's Anat. 5 They reiect incomparable Galens learned Commentarie.., hauing found thorow Paracelsus Vulcanian shop a more compendious..way. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 835 Nor could Vulcanian flame The stench abolish, or the savour tame. 1700― Pal. & Arc. iii. 908 With sounding axes to the Grove they go. Fell, split, and lay the fewel on a row, Vulcanian food. 1726Pope Odyss. xx. 154 Meantime the menial train with unctuous wood Heap'd high the genial hearth, Vulcanian food. 1791Cowper Iliad xxiii. 41 Many a saginated boar bright-tusk'd, Amid fierce flames Vulcanian stretch'd to roast. 1854H. E. J. Howard Rape Proserpine 15 The ponderous gates, the threshold, and the wall, Cast in Vulcanian mould, were iron all. 1865Ruskin Sesame i. §45 An armour forged in diviner fire by Vulcanian force.
b. Fashioned or forged by Vulcan. Also fig.
1603J. Davies (Heref.) Microcosmos Wks. (Grosart) I. 42/1 God's feare, that strong Vulcanian Armor, must Guard such good Soules as doe regard it heere. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xii. 93 The..slinging Casts of the Vulcanian Thunderbolts. 1697Dryden æneid x. 1139 The Trojan Chief..On his Vulcanian Orb sustain'd the War. 1718J. Trapp tr. Virgil (1735) I. Pref. to æneis p. xlvii, Ornamental Sculptures upon Homer's Vulcanian Shield. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 287 Thunders, that shook the skies with dire alarms, And, form'd by skill divine, Vulcanian arms. 1792D. Lloyd Voy. Life v. 99 Nor brazen walls, Nor bright Vulcanian shields, can stand before Th' intrepid aim of Resolution. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. xii. III. 166 The Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend. 1871Lonsdale & Lee Virgil Gen. Introd. (1903) 8 Criticism is as powerless against the poet as the sword of the mortal hero against the immortal temper of the Vulcanian shield.
2. a. Sprung from, related to, Vulcan.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Gt. Eater Kent 4 The Vulcanean brood of blacksmiths, fire-men, colliers, gunners, gun-founders, and all sorts of mettle-men. 1697Dryden æneid x. 758 Vulcanian Cæculus renews the fight, And Umbro born upon the mountain's height. 1749G. West tr. Pindar, 1st Pythian Ode vi, But he, Vulcanian Monster, to the clouds The fiercest, hottest inundations throws.
†b. n. One who resembles Vulcan. Obs.—1
1598Marston Pigmal., Sat. ii, Yet Muto, like a good Vulcanian, An honest Cuckold, calls the bastard sonne, And brags of that which others for him done.
†3. Vulcanian Islands, the Lipari Islands between Sicily and Italy. Obs.
1652Heylin Cosmogr. i. 72 On the West part of Sicil lie the æolian or Vulcanian Ilands. 1690T. Burnet Theory Earth ii. 57 There are no volcano's in my opinion, that deserve our observation so much, as those that are in and about the Mediterranean Sea; there is a knot of them called the Vulcanian Islands, from their fiery eruptions. 1705C. Purshall Mech. Macrocosm 83 The Vulcanian Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, are said to be of this sort.
4. Of, belonging to, or abounding with, volcanoes; volcanic. (Cf. volcanian a.)
1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 126 Aetna, Lipara and Hecla..and especially the Vulcanian Mountains of the new world. 1880Proctor Poetry Astron. i. (1881) 18 If no vulcanian forces were at work to prevent submergence. 1883Contemp. Rev. Oct. 575 Only by the action of her vulcanian energies can the earth maintain her position as an abode of life.
5. = Plutonian a. 2. (Cf. vulcanist 3.)
1840Smart. 1850Ogilvie s.v. Vulcanist, The Vulcanian theory has been expanded and illustrated by Lyell. 1870Brewer Dict. Phr. & Fable 939/2 The Vulcanian or Plutonian theory, which ascribes the changes on earth's surface to the agency of fire.
6. [f. Vulcano, name of one the Lipari Islands (cf. quot. 1976).] Of, pertaining to, or designating (the stage of) a volcanic eruption characterized by periodic explosive events.
1912Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CLXXXIV. 412 This hypothesis does not..invalidate the division of the eruption into a ‘Strombolian’ and a ‘Vulcanian’ phase—on the contrary, it supplies a cause for the great and continued dynamism of the ‘Vulcanian’ phase... It is interesting to note that the ‘Vulcanian’ phase, as far as actual, external eruption is concerned, is cooler than the ‘Strombolian’. 1944[see Peléan a.]. 1976P. Francis Volcanoes v. 169 Probably the best known Vulcanian deposit is one produced by an eruption of Vulcano itself in the 1880s. 1985E. A. K. Middlemost Magmas & Magmatic Rocks i. 28/2 Vulcanian eruptions usually begin with a series of phreatic explosions that eject lithic debris from the volcanic conduit. |