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under ground en · ADV

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1. (alt-of, alternative, uncommon) Alternative form of underground.
   alt of underground
   • Here lies one, in flower of youth, / Once his friend’s joy, now his parents ruth: / If Kitchen be his name, as I have found, / Then Death now keeps his kitchen under ground; / And hungry worms that late of fleſh did eat, / Devour their Kitchen in the ſtead of meat. 1662, I[ohn] C[otgrave], “On One Master Kitchen”, in Wits Interpreter, the English Parnassus. Or, A Sure Guide to Those Admirable Accomplishments That Compleat Our English Gentry, in the Most Acceptable Qualifications of Discourse or Writing. […], 2nd edition, London: […] N[athaniel] Brook, […], →OCLC, page 302:
   • Critical Paſſengers uſually ſound, / How deep the threatning gulf goes under ground, / By tumbling down ſtones ſought throughout the field, / As great as the officious Boores can wield, / Of which ſuch Millions of Tuns are thrown, / That in a Country, almoſt all of ſtone, / About the place they ſomething ſcarce are grown. 1681, Charles Cotton, The Wonders of the Peake, London: […] Joanna Brome, […], →OCLC, pages 31–32:
   • Car fluids wash through this stream, going under ground to the Edward’s Aquifer. 2007, Dale Smith, Black Stone, Austin, Tex.: Effing Press, →ISBN, page 22:
   • We have to go under''' ground to find out who we are as women; self-knowledge requires that we be psychologically subversive. 2002, Lyn Cowan, “Women and the land: Imagination and reality”, in Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture, Hove, East Sussex: Brunner-Routledge, →ISBN, page 39:

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