subjacent

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All is prepared, so to say, for some empirical short-cut to a fuller control of these subjacent pictures; just as before Mesmer and Puys�gur all was prepared for an empirical short-cut to trance, somnambulism, suggestibility.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Moreover, the movement of the gravel itself wears down the subjacent rocks.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Now with a churn-staff, beat it till the thick substance just mentioned, be intimately blended with the subjacent fluid.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

On the other hand, the membrane may not differ from the subjacent liquid in chemical composition, but only in physical properties.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

These higher details we find, for instance, in the turn of the inner end of the eyebrow, or constriction and elevation of the under eyelid, or a hundred other traits dependant on subjacent muscles.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander