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- adjective Alternative spelling of
chthonic .
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Examples
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Uncharacteristically for me, I did no additional research on the band members, instrumentation, cthonic influences, etc.
Sigur Ros badger 2005
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Kipperman suggests below, one can read the cthonic voice "as if" from the earthas a figure for a hoped-for collective agency, though admittedly led by intellectual orator-poets like Shelley, an idealized form of unacknowledged legislation.
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“Prolonged exposure to the substances contained in certain cthonic emanations can cause extensive brain damage, which in turn could account for widespread memory loss in a given population, among other effects,” Data observed.
TO STORM HEAVEN ESTHER FRIESNER 1990
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But is not 'charm' a property of those quantum particles those scientists and engineers foolishly seek to summon in those cthonic tunnels under Switzerland?
NZ On Screen 2010
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Although Quentin's immersion into a world of magic and people who are equally as talented and intelligent as him is a relief, his boarding school experience is not without its hardships, from the normal sexual and social tensions of the college years, to the eruption of a cthonic evil in the middle of one of Coldwater's classes.
Everything2 New Writeups Glowing Fish 2010
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How is my rejection of that way of seeing God different from the knee-jerk reaction many Christians might have to some of the darker, cthonic deities of Paganism?
QuakerQuaker.org 2009
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As for cthonic, I've loved that word ever since I ran into in a story I read in high school.
unknown title 2009
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MetaFilter: a cthonic entity that has managed to breach the barrier between the depths of the nether reaches and the sun lit lands of happy 'normal' life.
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As for cthonic, I've loved that word ever since I ran into in a story I read in high school.
unknown title 2009
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MetaFilter: a cthonic entity that has managed to breach the barrier between the depths of the nether reaches and the sun lit lands of happy 'normal' life.
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