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
Where, in this case, are we to seek the concealed channels by which the Plutonic action is conveyed?
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
Zeus remained lord of the land, the obscure Hades, lord of the underworld, reigned in the Plutonic abysses, and Poseidon became master of the blue surfaces.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
His love, which had victoriously expelled his cousin's from the field of debate, he carries with him to the melancholy Plutonic kingdom, and leaves the field of debate still—Palamon victor, and Emelie free.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
