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
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
The way in which Marlboro' manages his affairs is too Plutonic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various
The greater or less pressure under which merely softened or wholly liquid fluids are solidified, appears to constitute the main difference in the formation of Plutonic and volcanic rocks.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
