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Definition of Subterraneous

1. Adjective. Being or operating under the surface of the earth. "A subsurface flow of water"

2. Adjective. Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed). "Looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"

Definition of Subterraneous

1. Adjective. Subterranean. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subterraneous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subterraneous

subtense subtenses subtepid subterahertz subterete subterfuge subterfuges subterm subterminal subterminally

subterms subterrane subterraneal subterranean subterraneanly subterraneous (current term) subterraneously subterraneousness subterranes subterranies

subterranities subterranity subterrany subterrene subterrestrial subtest subtests subtext subtextless subtexts

Literary usage of Subterraneous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1823)
"subterraneous Antiqui- *^ ties in Gallicia.—A Mr. John Chmielecki, having read in Kirch- ner's Annals a conjecture that the subterraneous eaves and passages ..."

2. History of Art in Sardinia, Judæa, Syria, and Asia Minor by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1890)
"subterraneous Passage. Trans- FIG. 305.—subterraneous Passage. PERROT, . verse Section. ... subterraneous Passage. Plan of Entrance. PERROT, p. 329. wall. ..."

3. History of Art in Sardinia, Judæa, Syria, and Asia Minor by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1890)
"subterraneous Passage. Trans- FIG. 305.—subterraneous Passage. PERROT, , verse Section. ... subterraneous Passage. Plan of Entrance. PERROT, p. 329. wall. ..."

4. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1824)
"The fissure horizontally formed in this manner, may have served as a channel for the lakes or rivers which constitute these extensive subterraneous waters. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... of the subterraneous regions.37 The Egyptians, who were obstinately devoted to the religion of their fathers, refused to admit this foreign deity within ..."

6. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"subterraneous Fire in Kent. AJ, July 6.—A subterraneous Fire was lately discover^ to burn in a Wood at North Cray, near Bexley in Kent; and the Roots of the ..."

7. Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday (1855)
"GENTLEMEN, A COMMUNICATION has been just brought to my notice on some remarkable phaenomena presented by subterraneous electro-telegraph wires observed and ..."

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