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† subteˈrraneal, a. (n.) Obs.
[f. L. subterrāneus (see prec.) + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. Underground; = subterranean a. 1.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 30 Feareful vaultes, and subterraneal buttresses. 1639G. Plattes (title) A Discovery of Subterraneall Treasure: viz. of all manner of Mines and Mineralls. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 404 Subterraneall and dark Demons. 1671Bohun Disc. Wind Contents, The 2d Locall Origine of Winds in Generall from the Earth or Seas, as from Submarine or Subterraneall Eruptions. 1673Boyle Ess. Effluviums iii. 51 The more agile Corpuscles of Subterraneal Salts. 1681Grew Musæum i. §ii. i. 14 He catcheth Ant's by scratching open their subterraneal Hives. 1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 7 Mountains not cast up by the flood, nor by the subterraneal spirits. 1741Phil. Trans. LV. 239 The subterraneal damps and mineral spirit of fountains seem..exactly to resemble each other.
2. Belonging to the lower regions; infernal; = subterranean a. 2.
1651T. Stanley Plat. Disc. Love 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. 1803Shaw tr. Bacon's Fables Anc. xi, [Pluto] hurrying her to his chariot, carried her with him to the subterraneal regions.
B. n. pl. Underground strata.
1652French Yorksh. Spaw iii. 32 How variously subterranealls communicate their vertues to this Element [viz. water]. |