subterrestrialadj.n.

1592 A. Willet Synopsis Papismi 302 The Papists..haue deuised and imagined in their foolish conceit foure infernall and subterrestrial places: Hell, Purgatorie, Limbus infantium, where children remaine dying without baptisme, and Limbus Patrum, where the Fathers were before Christs comming.

1615 W. Hull Mirrour of Majestie 68 The Popes pretended Supremacie ouer coelestiall, terrestriall, and subterrestriall creatures.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (ii. 8) i. 164 Every creature, invisible or visible,..celestiall or supercelestiall, terrestiall or subterrestiall.

a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 107 The most reputable way of entring into this Subterrestrial Country [viz. Hell] is to come in at the Fore-door.

1711 W. Whiston Primitive Christianity Reviv'd I. 219/1 He really, and not in Appearance was crucified, and died, in the Sight of the Celestial, Terrestrial, and Subterrestrial Beings.

1812 Crit. Rev. Feb. 180 Yáma, the god of death, or subterrestrial world.

1890 P. Schaff Lit. & Poetry x. 351 Everybody..believed in a material hell beneath the earth, a material heaven above the sky, and an intervening material purgatory... The reality of these subterrestrial and celestial regions was..little doubted.

1912 Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier 16 Nov. 14/6 The sixteenth chapter of Luke eliminates the word ‘hell’ as the name for subterrestrial realms and replaces it with ‘underworld’.

2002 Columbian (Vancouver, WA.) (Nexis) 9 July c7 I discovered..a show that only pretends to be about a teen-age girl who fights vampires, demons and other subterrestrial baddies.

1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies To Rdr. sig. A3^v For searchers of minerals, mettals, sea-coles, and other subterestriall bodies.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 891 Bees subterrestrial have another form and nature.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 87 Hot Springs or subterrestrial Exhalations.

1737 H. Fielding Tom Thumb (ed. 3) Pref. f. 4^v Those two Extremities of Stile Mr. Dryden illustrates by the familiar Image of two Inns, which I shall term the Aerial and the Subterrestrial.

1787 P. H. Maty tr. J. K. Riesbeck Trav. Germany I. xiv. 138 Sometimes I take my abode in the deep hanging brow of a mountain, in a shepherdess's hut, who dwells the whole summer through with her flocks in thie subterrestrial region.

1820 J. F. L. Williams Hist. Acct. Inventions & Discov. II. 48 In subterrestrial situations, where a free circulation of exterior atmospheric air is excluded, the power of frigidity is unknown.

1885 W. K. Parker Mammalian Descent vi. 148 The mole did not become subterrestrial just lately.

1912 R. W. Hegner College Zool. i. 7 Animals like the mole and the earthworm which live underground, are said to be subterrestrial.

1978 Newsweek (Nexis) 5 June 106 Most subterrestrial buildings are set into hills or constructed around sunken atriums to provide as much natural light and air as possible.

2006 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 30 July (Books section) 3 Verne and Burroughs, as author David Standish chronicles in 'Hollow Earth,' were just two visitors to this subterrestrial landscape.

1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini i. xi. 91 Mole-eyed, thou mayest but burrow in the earth, Blind as that subterrestrial.

1908 W. A. Cooper tr. A. Bielschowsky Life Goethe III. iii. 112 He prepared himself..while ‘living in chasms, caves, and forests, in ponds and under waterfalls, with the subterrestrials’, for serious scientific work.

2008 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 17 Apr. 8 We'd be the mole people. The subterrestrials.