What is "underlain"

Usage examples of "underlain".

In the process, many of the prejudices and irrationalities that had underlain the strife of ages at last withered or were swept away.

The air stank of violent death, shit and the seaweed smell of blood and wet chopped meat, all underlain by decades of incense and beeswax from the church.

Now that they were halted he could hear the battle along the city walls, the boom and rattle of it muffled by distance and underlain by a surf-roar of voices.

But whether man's inward mind patterning, which provides him with the capacity for verbal language, is underlain by a subtle and universal language of meaning to which we all relate when using verbal language, is an interesting possibility I discussed in The Web of Life.

It is a two-way process, a shimmering dynamic projection of Formative Mind energies underlain by the power of the Life Force.

The night air smelled crisp as he walked past a couple of other bars to the parking lot, the crispness underlain by the almost imperceptibly faint tinges of stale urine, vomit, and sex that always linger in the streets outside popular establishments dedicated to the nightlife.

Pryce tripped, whether over an uneven place in the floor or his own feet she wasn't sure, but as he landed against her and used her shoulder to straighten himself, she got a whiff of clean male scent underlain with a hint of rut.

But mostly the ground had been torn open by the cumulative wrath of the wizards of the earth, and the pits which had underlain the Citadel gaped bare.

The air was dry and sweet with the scent of warm dust, underlain by some metallic tang that caught his throat.

The bodies were steaming under the hot sun, the smells of shit and iron-copper blood already underlain by a slight sickly scent as tissue began to go off.