subterranealadj.n.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 30 Feareful vaultes, and subterraneal buttresses.

1639 G. Plattes (title) A discovery of subterraneall treasure, viz. of all manner of mines and mineralls.

1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. iii. xix. 404 Subterraneall and dark Demons.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind Contents The 2^d Locall Origine of Winds in Generall from the Earth or Seas, as from Submarine or Subterraneall Eruptions.

1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 7 Mountains not cast up by the flood, nor by the subterraneal spirits.

1723 J. Pointer Rational Acct. Weather 55 Upon excessive Droughts, when the Ground is parch'd and crack'd, some subterraneal Effluvia may not rise.

1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 239 The subterraneal damps and mineral spirit of fountains seem..exactly to resemble each other.

1855 Musical World 19 May 25/2 The comet wine of 1811, and the earthquake wine of 1842: so called from the fact that the year..produced also (by some mysterious meteorological, chemical, subterraneal or other pleasant cause)..two excellent vintages.

1883 F. R. Stockton in Cent. Mag. Jan. 405/1 An' then we wandered alone through them ruined cloisters and subterraneal halls, an' old tombstones of the past.

1929 W. Estep Esoteric Cosmic Yogi Sci. I. 23 Go to our second subterraneal cave and bring the Second book.

1987 Human Ecol. 15 192 Subterraneal water is the principal source of supply.

2000 Newsline (Karachi) Feb. 135/2 The roots of '94 were at a subterraneal level. I was using ground rock, but material never became an end in itself.

1643 R. Gentilis tr. G. Diodati Pious Annot. Holy Bible (Job xxxviii. 17) 91/1 The gates..poeticall termes to signifie the subterraneall and infernall parts.

1651 T. Stanley Plat. Disc. Love in Poems 222 The World her self being one, can have but one soul; which as it animates the subterraneal parts, is called Pluto; the sublunary Neptune; the celestial, Jupiter.

1733 P. Shaw tr. F. Bacon Fable Proserpine in Philos. Wks. I. App. §1. xii. 575 [Pluto] hurrying her to his Chariot, carried her with him to the subterraneal Regions.

1792 N. Tomlinson Arius Slain vi. 94 The apostle Paul says, ‘That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,’ both celestial, terestrial, and subterraneal.

2007 D. Menville & R. Odell Under Egypt i. x. 116 Infernal powers..quit thy somber habitation and render up him whom we do summon in the name of the Dark Father..and all other infernal and subterraneal intelligences and spirits who may hear our call.

1652 J. French York-shire Spaw iii. 32 How variously subterranealls communicate their vertues to this Element [viz. water].