plutonic

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He has taken a thin old story of the businessman, the bored wife and the Plutonic musician and made it grow and ripple with amusement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pluton'ic, relating to the interior of the earth, or to the Plutonic theory in geology of the formation of certain rocks by fire: from "Pluto"—in classic mythology, the god of the infernal regions.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

Plu′tonism; Plu′tonist.—Plutonic action, the action of volcanic fires under the surface; Plutonic rocks, rocks formed under the surface by the action of fire, as granite, porphyry, &c.;

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Precisely so: Plutonic, necyomantic, Lemurian rats, kindly lent by the Prince of Darkness for the occasion, and come dripping from Styx to squeak and gibber in the Capitol.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

Gaseous emanations rising from very unequal depths, and therefore conveying substances differing in their chemical nature, imparted greater activity to the Plutonic processes of formation and transformation.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von