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subterrene, a. and n.|sʌbtəˈriːn|
Also 7 -en.
[ad. L. subterrēnus: see sub- 1 a and terrene.]
A. adj.
1. Underground; = subterranean 1.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie God x. ix. 372 Sixe kindes of Dæmones. First the fiery,..5. the subterrene, that liue in caues. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 302 The earth is full of subterrene fires. a1711Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. II. 127 Shew me the Gulph, that's fix'd between The upper Hades, and the sub-terrene. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. ix. 228 Those dungeons of dimness,..those labyrinths of subterrene communication. 1862Macm. Mag. May 64 The inconvenience of the subterrene trains. 1878Proctor Pleas. Ways Sci. ix. (1879) 181 The activity thus exhibited..had its origin in the same subterrene or submarine region as the Peruvian earthquake.
2. Infernal; = subterranean 2.
1836I. Taylor Phys. Theory xvi. 219 note, The three great orders of the intelligent economy—the heavenly, the earthly, and the subterrene. 1858Caswall Poems 80 Dread Angels subterrene Mighty in works of ill.
B. n. An underground dwelling, etc.; (with the) the underworld.
1854S. Dobell Balder xviii. 75 Have we shut thee forth, poor child, And wist not of thy journey, nor the end And exit of that gloomy subterrene Which thou didst enter? 1856Tasso & Leonora 95 Being as transparent as Montesino's glass Castle, while he fancied himself as impenetrable as the said Montesino's Subterrene. 1867J. B. Rose tr. Virg. æneid Notes 404 The urns and sarcophagi in these subterrenes bear purely native mythological subjects. c1873J. Addis Eliz. Echoes (1879) 94 Th' uncertain hum Of hosts upsweeping from the subterrene. |