[UNDER-1 5 c.] A life beneath the surface or on a lower level.
1847. Edin. Rev., Jan., 32. On looking more closely into Hume’s underlife.
1865. Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, xxiii. The underlife that never had been spoken—that lay between these three.
1878. Stewart & Tait, Unseen Univ., vii. § 242. 245. What we are driven to is not an under-life resident in the atom but rather a Divine overlife.
1888. Harper’s Mag., April, 753/2. Paris; and the university, with its wild under-life,—some debts, some follies.
