† ˈsubterrany, a. (n.) Obs. rare.
[ad. L. subterrāneus (see subterrane): cf. momentany.]
= subterranean.
| 1626 Bacon Sylva §326 The Making of Gold did require a very temperate Heat, as being in Nature a Subterrany worke, where little Heat commeth. Ibid. 354 We see that in Subterranies there are, as the Fathers of their Tribes, Brimstone and Mercury: In Vegetables, and Liuing Creatures there is Water and Oyle. 1651 R. Child in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 73 It is necessary for him to know all subterrany things. 1651 J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 393 Innumerable unclean spirits..; under these they place a kind of spirits, subterrany or obscure, which the Platonists call Angels that failed. 1656 Blount Glossogr. |