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subteˈrraneously, adv.
[-ly2.]
1. Below the surface of the ground.
1859R. F. Burton Central Afr. in Jrnl. Geogr. Soc. XXIX. 218 An edible white fungus growing subterraneously. 1890Hardwicke's Science Gossip XXVI. 73 At no great depth beneath London and the south-eastern counties there lay the continuation subterraneously of the chain of hills represented by the Mendips in the West of England, and the Ardennes of Belgium.
2. Secretly; in the dark.
1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit., Buckhm.'s Pol. Coquetry III. 349 He winded the duke circuitously,—he worked at him subterraneously. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. ii. xi, From the elder Miss Lovell to her brother this news was thus as it were subterraneously conveyed. 1856De Quincey in H. A. Page Thomas De Quincey (1877) II. 123 What more, then, was it, my dear girls, that you were subterraneously seeking? 1912A. Harrison in Engl. Rev. Mar. 676 It is a force growing subterraneously. |