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subterrestrial, a. and n. Now rare.|sʌbtəˈrɛstrɪəl|
[See sub- 1 a and terrestrial.]
A. adj.
1. = subterranean 1. Now rare.
1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies Pref. 2 For searchers of minerals, mettals, sea-coles, and other subterestrial bodies. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 891 Bees subterrestrial have another form and nature. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 87 Hot Springs or subterrestrial Exhalations. 1730Fielding Tom Thumb Pref., Wks. 1882 VIII. 351 Those two extremities of style Mr. Dryden illustrates by the familiar image of two inns, which I shall term the aërial and the subterrestrial. 1885W. K. Parker Mammal. Desc. vi. 148 The mole did not become subterrestial just lately.
†2. = subterranean 2. Obs.
1615W. Hull Mirr. Maj. 68 The Popes pretended Supremacie ouer coelestiall, terrestriall, and subterrestriall creatures. 1643R. O. Man's Mort. v. 27 Angels that are highest in dignitie, and so coelesteiall;..Divels and Death the lowest, and so subterrestriall. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. ii. 8 Every creature, invisible or visible,..celestiall or supercelestiall, terrestriall or subterrestriall. 1702T. Brown Lett. fr. Dead to Living Wks. 1760 II. 209 The most reputable way of entring into this subterrestrial country [viz. Hell] is to come in at the fore-door.
B. n. A creature living under ground.
1800Coleridge Piccolom. i. xi. 91 Mole-eyed, thou mayest but burrow in the earth, Blind as that subterrestrial. |