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catachthonian, a.|kætəkˈθəʊnɪan|
[f. Gr. καταχθόνιος subterranean, f. κατά down, under + χθόνιος of the ground, f. χθών ground + -ian.]
Subterranean.
1888Rhys Hibbert Lect. 131 Pluto..was always..a chthonian or catachthonian Zeus.
So catachˈthonic a.
1884Athenæum 8 Mar. 314/3 In the Takashima coal-mine..an underground, or, as he prefers to call it, a catachthonic observatory. |