a. and sb. Now rare. 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. sb. = SUBTERRANEAN sb. 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. trans. Custine’s Empire of Czar, II. 18. The submarine dungeons of Kronstadt,… and … many other subterranes.
