Vulcanian

adjective Vulcanean

1. Roman, not comparable 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. ...Nor cou'd Vulcanian Flame The Stench abolish; or the Savour tame...
2. Roman, not comparable, obsolete, rare Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, a cuckold. Yet Muto, like a good Vulcanian, An honest Cuckold, calls the bastard sonne, And brags of that which others for him done.
3. literary, not comparable, uncommon Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, of or related to metalwork, blacksmithing, and metallurgy. A sabre, when the warrior press'd to part,
4. archaic, not comparable Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, volcanic, of or related to volcanoes and volcanism. 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.
5. archaic, historical, not comparable Of or related to former theories attributing the origin of basalt and other crystalline minerals to subterranean fires. 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.

   Similar: Plutonian, volcanian

6. archaic, not comparable Of or related to volcanic eruptions or phases of a volcanic eruption when repeated explosions produce a thick ash cloud. 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.
7. not comparable Of or related to the proposed planet Vulcan or a cluster of asteroids at the same location in the Solar System.