subterrane, a. and n. Now rare.
(ˈsʌbtəreɪn)
Also 9 -ain.
[ad. L. subterrāneus, f. sub- sub- 1 a + terra earth. Cf. OF. soub-, subterrain (F. souterrain), It. sotterrano, -aneo.]
A. adj. = subterranean a.
| 1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. 650 By this secret subterrane vault, Zedechias making his stealth, recouered..the plaines or deserts of Iericho. 1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 4. 513 Hell is a subterrane treasure of hidden fire. 1712 Phil. Trans. XXVII. 481 As to the Age in which those Trees were interred, it is hard to determine. Many think they have lain in that Subterrane State ever since Noah's Flood. 1824 Byron Def. Transf. i. i. 79 The waters stir, Not as with air, but by some subterrane And rocking power of the internal world. 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 550 From all its vasty antres subterrane. 1831 Keightley Mythol. Greece & Italy 68 Hades, the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, was lord of the subterrane region, the abode of the dead. 1842 J. F. Watson Ann. Philad. & Penn. (1877) I. 412 A subterrane tunnel. 1861 D. Greenwell Poems 95 Some echo subterrain. |
B. n. = subterranean n. 3.
| 1774 J. Bryant Mythol. I. 116 It was a cave in the rock, abounding with variety of subterranes, cut out into various apartments. 1816 G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. III. 260 Like the subterrain of mount Olivet, it resembled the mouth of an oven or a well. 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai ii. 34 Mystic subterrane From surface down to centre is commoved. 1843 tr. Custine's Empire of Czar II. 18 The submarine dungeons of Kronstadt,..and..many other subterranes. |