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  Vulcanian

  adjective

  of, relating to, or associated with Vulcan.
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  vulcanian

  adjective

  geology

Vulcanian

American  

[vuhl-key-nee-uhn] / vʌlˈkeɪ ni ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or associated with Vulcan.

2. (lowercase) volcanic.

3. (lowercase) of or relating to metalworking.

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vulcanian British  

/ vʌlˈkeɪnɪən /

adjective

1. geology

   1. of or relating to a volcanic eruption characterized by the explosive discharge of fine ash and large irregular fragments of solidified or viscous lava

   2. a less common word for volcanic

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Etymology

Origin of Vulcanian

1590–1600; < Latin Vulcāni ( us ) of Vulcan + -an

Example Sentences

Unwilling as I am, of force I stay, Till Thetis bring me at the dawn of day Vulcanian arms: what other can I wield, Except the mighty Telamonian shield?

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

The cuirass was brought, and suggested to the wits of the Court ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Banishment of Jovinus to Vulcanian Islands 222 48.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

This, while the Trojans fled, the toughness held; But, vain against the great Vulcanian shield, The mortal-temper'd steel deceiv'd his hand: The shiver'd fragments shone amid the sand.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Between the merely ornamental Sculptures upon Homer's Vulcanian Shield, and the Roman History, and the Triumphs of Augustus upon Virgil's?

From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph