Meaning of Vulcanian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German and Celtic gods.
   Roman, not-comparable
2. Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, a cuckold.
   Roman, alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete, rare
3. Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, of or related to metalwork, blacksmithing, and metallurgy.
   alt-of, literary, not-comparable, uncommon
4. Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, volcanic, of or related to volcanoes and volcanism.
   alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
5. Of or related to former theories attributing the origin of basalt and other crystalline minerals to subterranean fires.
   archaic, historical, not-comparable
6. Of or related to volcanic eruptions or phases of a volcanic eruption when repeated explosions produce a thick ash cloud.
   archaic, not-comparable
7. Of or related to the proposed planet Vulcan or a cluster of asteroids at the same location in the Solar System.
   not-comparable

Examples

“...Nor cou'd Vulcanian Flame The Stench abolish; or the Savour tame...”

“Yet Muto, like a good Vulcanian, An honest Cuckold, calls the bastard sonne, And brags of that which others for him done.”

“A sabre, when the warrior press'd to part,”

“Solinus reports it of the Vulcanian Hill in Sicily, that they which offered Sacrifice upon it, never put fire to it, but expected it should be kindled from Heaven.”

“In his six lectures on Volcanos, [Faujas] exhausted the subject, and showed us the difference of the several systems, the Vulcanian, the Neptunian, and the Huttonian, which is the Plutonian, and his own opinion.”

“The Vulcanian or Plutonian theory, which ascribes the changes on earth's surface to the agency of fire.”

“Just as we have the ‘Plinian’ or ‘Vesuvian’ eruptions of Vesuvius accompanied by violent outbursts of ‘ashes’ and welling out of lava, and the incessant, milder ‘Strombolian’ type of eruption, so we may distinguish a ‘Vulcanian’ type.”

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