Subterraneous
adj
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Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Subterranean. not-comparable
"[S]he recollected a ſubterraneous paſſage which led from the vaults of the caſtle to the church of St. Nicholas."
Adjective
- 1 lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) wordnet
- 2 being or operating under the surface of the earth wordnet
Example
More examples"During the reigns of Charles II., and James, his successor, the principal nobility held frequent meetings in a subterraneous vault beneath this house, for the purpose of ascertaining the measures necessary to be pursued for reestablishing the liberties of the kingdom, which the insidious hypocrisy of one monarch, and the more avowed despotism of the other, had completely undermined and destroyed."
Etymology
Adapted borrowing of Latin subterrāneus + -ous. Doublet of subterrane.
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