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Adjective
subterrane (not comparable)
- Synonym of subterranean.
- ✤ By this ſecret ſubterrane vault, Zedechias making his ſtealth, recouered (by the helpe of the darke night) the plaines or deſerts of Iericho: […]1
- ✤ The waters stir,/Not as with air, but by some subterrane/And rocking power of the internal world.2
- ✤ I watched men in moon suits bury drums of nuclear waste and I thought of the living rocks down there, the subterrane process, the half-life, the atoms that decay to half the original number.3
Noun
subterrane (plural subterranes)
- A cave or underground room.
- ✤ While these awful scenes were being enacted in the subterranes of the holy inquisition […]4
Etymology
From Latin subterrāneus.5 Doublet of subterraneous.
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Link to original Footnotes
1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the Times from the Death of Manasses to the Destruction of Ierusalem”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, §. VI (The Oppression of Iudæa, and Destruction of Ierusalem by the Chaldæans), page 650: ↩
1824, Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed; a Drama, London: […] J[ohn] and H[enry] L[eigh] Hunt, […], →OCLC, part I, scene I, page 13: ↩
1997, Don DeLillo, chapter 6, in Underworld, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 122: ↩
1857, George W.M. Reynolds, Wagner, The Wehr-Wolf, London: John Dicks: ↩
“subterrane, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩
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