a. (sb.) Obs. rare. [ad. L. subterrāneus (see SUBTERRANE): cf. momentany.] = SUBTERRANEAN.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 326. The Making of Gold did require a very temperate Heat, as being in Nature a Subterrany worke, where little Heat commeth. Ibid., § 354. We see that in Subterranies there are, as the Fathers of their Tribes, Brimstone and Mercury: In Vegetables, and Liuing Creatures there is Water and Oyle.
1651. R. Child, in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 73. It is necessary for him to know all subterrany things.
1651. J. F[reake], Agrippa’s Occ. Philos., 393. Innumerable unclean spirits…; under these they place a kind of spirits, subterrany or obscure, which the Platonists call Angels that failed.
1656. Blount, Glossogr.
