Meanings
adjectivesubterposed (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparablePlaced underneath.
When the bodies had been placed on the pyres, these were set on fire, so that the clothes and the flesh were burned with the subterposed wood.
1878, The Quarterly Review, volume 145, page 68
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