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Subdividing

SUBDIVIDING, participle present tense Dividing into smaller parts that which is already divided.

Subdivision

SUBDIVISION, noun

1. The act of subdividing or separating a part into smaller parts.

2. The part of a thing made by subdividing; the part of a larger part.

In the decimal table, the subdivision s of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit.

Subdolous

SUBDOLOUS, adjective [Latin Sub and dolus, deceit.] Sly; crafty; cunning; artful; deceitful. [Little used.]

Subdominant

SUBDOMINANT, noun In music, the fourth note above the tonic, being under the dominant.

Subduable

SUBDUABLE, adjective That may be subdued.

Subdual

SUBDUAL, noun [from subdue.] The act of subduing.

Subduce

SUBDUCE, SUBDUCT, verb transitive [Latin , sub and duco, to draw.]

Subduct

SUBDUCE, SUBDUCT verb transitive [Latin , sub and duco, to draw.]

1. To withdraw; to take away.

Or from my side subducting, took perhaps more than enough.

2. To subtract by arithmetical operation.

If out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations we should SUBDUCT ten--

Subduction

SUBDUCTION, noun

1. The act of taking away or withdrawing.

2. Arithmetical subtraction.

Subdue

SUBDUE, verb transitive

1. To conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion. Thus Cesar subdued the Gauls; Augustus subdued Egypt; the English subdued Canada. Subduing implies conquest or vanquishing, but it implies also more permanence of subjection to the conquering power, than either of these words.

I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chronicles 17:10.

2. To oppress; to crush; to sink; to overpower so as to disable from further resistance.

Nothing could have subdud nature to such a lowness, but his unkind daughters.

If aught were worthy to subdue the soul of man.

3. To tame; to break by conquering a refractory temper or evil passions; to render submissive; as, to subdue a stubborn child.

4. To conquer; to reduce to mildness; as, to subdue the temper or passions.

5. To overcome by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or intreaties.

6. To overcome; to conquer; to captivate; as by charms.

7. To soften; to melt; to reduce to tenderness; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.

8. To overcome; to overpower and destroy the force of; as, medicines subdue a fever.

9. To make mellow; to break; as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.

Subdued

SUBDUED, participle passive Conquered and reduced to subjection; oppressed; crushed; tamed; softened.

Subduement

SUBDUEMENT, noun Conquest. [Not used.]

Subduer

SUBDUER, noun

1. One who conquers and brings into subjection; a tamer.

2. That which subdues or destroys the force of.

Subduing

SUBDUING, participle present tense Vanquishing and reducing to subjection; crushing; destroying the power of resistance; softening.

Subduple

SUBDUPLE, adjective [Latin , double.] Containing one part of two.

Subduplicate

SUBDUPLICATE, adjective [sub and duplicate.] Having the ratio of the square roots.

Subequal

SUBEQUAL, adjective [sub and equal.] Nearly equal.

Suberate

SUBERATE, noun [Latin , a cork.] A salt formed by the suberic acid in combination with a base.

Suberic

SUBERIC, adjective Pertaining to cork, or extracted from it; as suberic acid.

Suberose

SUBEROSE, adjective [Latin , gnawed.] In botany, having the appearance of being gnawed; appearing as if a little eaten or gnawed.

Suberous

SUBEROUS, adjective [Latin , cork.] Corky; soft and elastic.

Subfusc

SUBFUSC, adjective [Latin Sub and fuscus.] Duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny.

Subglobular

SUBGLOBULAR, adjective Having a form approaching to globular.

Subhastation

SUBHASTATION, noun [Latin , under the spear.] A public sale or auction, so called form the Roman practice.

Subhydrosulphuret

SUBHYDROSULPHURET, noun A compound of sulphurated hydrogen with a base, in a less proportion than in hydrosulphuret.

Subindication

SUBINDICATION, noun [Latin Sub and indico.] The act of indication by signs.

Subinfeudation

SUBINFEUDATION, noun [sub and infeudation. See Feud.]

1. In law, the act of enfeoffing by a tenant or feoffee, who holds lands of the crown; the act of a greater baron, who grants land or a smaller manor to an inferior person. By 34 Edward II all subinfeudations previous to the reign of king Edward I., were confirmed.

2. Under tenancy.

The widow is immediate tenant to the heir, by a kind of subinfeudation or under tenancy.

Subingression

SUBINGRESSION, noun [Latin Sub and ingressus.] Secret entrance. [Not in use.]

Subitaneous

SUBITANEOUS, adjective [Latin] Sudden; hasty.

Subitany

SUBITANY, adjective Sudden. [Not in use.]

Subjacent

SUBJACENT, adjective [Latin Sub and jaceo, to lie.]

1. Lying under or below.

2. Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath. A man placed on a hill, surveys the subjacent plain.

Subject

SUBJECT, adjective

1. Placed or situate under.

--The eastern tower whose height commands, as subject all the vale, to see the fight.

2. Being under the power and dominion of another; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.

Esau was never subject to Jacob.

3. Exposed; liable from extraneous causes; as a country subject to extreme heat or cold.

4. Liable from inherent causes; prone; disposed.

All human things are subject to decay.

5. Being that on which nay thing operates, whether intellectual or material; as the subject-matter of a discourse.

6. Obedient. Titus 3:1. Colossians 2:20.

SUBJECT, noun [Latin]

1. One that owes allegiance to a sovereign and is governed by his laws. The natives of Great Britain are subjects of the British government. The natives of the United States, and naturalized foreigners, are subjects of the federal government. Men in free governments, are subjects as well as citizens; as citizens, they enjoy rights and franchises; as subjects, they are bound to obey the laws.

The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, and human laws require it.

2. That on which any mental operation is performed; that which is treated or handled; as a subject of discussion before the legislature; a subject of negotiation.

This subject for heroic song pleasd me.

The subject of a proposition is that concerning which any thing is affirmed or denied.

3. That on which any physical operation is performed; as a subject for dissection or amputation.

4. That in which any thing inheres or exists.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns.

5. The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece.

Authors of biography are apt to be prejudiced in favor of their subject

6. In grammar, the nominative case to a verb passive.

SUBJECT, verb transitive

1. To bring under the power or dominion of. Alexander subjected a great part of the civilized world to his dominion.

Firmness of mind that subjects every gratification of sense to the rule of right reason--

2. To put under or within the power of.

In one short view subjected to our eye, gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie.

3. To enslave; to make obnoxious.

He is the most subjected, the most enslaved, who is so in his understanding.

4. To expose; to make liable. Credulity subjects a person to impositions.

5. To submit; to make accountable.

God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts--

6. To make subservient.

--Subjected to his service angel wings.

7. To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject it to a rigid test.

Subjected

SUBJECTED, participle passive Reduced to the dominion of another; enslaved; exposed; submitted; made to undergo.

Subjection

SUBJECTION, noun

1. The act of subduing; the act of vanquishing and bringing under the dominion of another.

The conquest of the kingdom and the subjection of the rebels--

2. The state of being under the power, control and government of another. The safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws. The isles of the West Indies are held in subjection to the powers of Europe. Our appetites and passions should be in subjection to our reason, and our will should be in entire subjection to the laws of God.

Subjective

SUBJECTIVE, adjective Relating to the subject, as opposed to the object.

Certainty--is distinguished into objective and subjective; objective, is when the proposition is certainly true of itself; and subjective is when we are certain of the truth of it.

Subjectively

SUBJECTIVELY, adverb In relation to the subject.

Subjoin

SUBJOIN, verb transitive [Latin] To add at the end; to add after something else has been said or written; as, to subjoin an argument or reason. [It is never used in a literal physical sense, to express the joining of material things.]

Subjoined

SUBJOINED, participle passive Added after something else said or written.

Subjoining

SUBJOINING, participle present tense Adding after something else said or written.

Subjugate

SUBJUGATE, verb transitive [Latin Sub and jugo, to yoke. See Yoke.] To subdue and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another.

He subjugated a king, and called him his vassal.

[Subjugate differs from subject only in implying a reduction to a more tyrannical or arbitrary sway; but they are often used as synonymous.]

Subjugated

SUBJUGATED, participle passive Reduced to the absolute control of another.

Subjugating

SUBJUGATING, participle present tense Conquering and bringing under the absolute power of another.

Subjugation

SUBJUGATION, noun The act of subduing and bringing under the power or absolute control of another.

Subjunction

SUBJUNCTION, noun The act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.

Subjunctive

SUBJUNCTIVE, adjective [Latin See Subjoin.]

1. Subjoined or added to something before said or written.

2. In grammar, designating a form of verbs which follow other verbs or words expressing condition, hypothesis or contingency; as, veni ut me videas, I came that you may see me; Si fecerint aequum, if they should do what is just.

3. subjunctive is often used as a noun, denoting the subjunctive mode.

Sublanate

SUBLANATE, adjective [Latin , wool.] In botany, somewhat woolly.

Sublapsarian

SUBLAPSARIAN, SUBLAPSARY, adjective [Latin , fall.] Done after the apostasy of Adam. [See the Noun.]

Sublapsary

SUBLAPSARIAN, SUBLAPSARY adjective [Latin , fall.] Done after the apostasy of Adam. [See the Noun.]

SUBLAPSARIAN, noun One who maintains the sublapsarian doctrine, that the sin of Adams apostasy being imputed to all his posterity, God in compassion decreed to send his Son to rescue a great number from their lost state, and to accept of his obedience and death on their account. The decree of reprobation, according to the sublapsarians, is nothing but a preterition or non-election of persons, whom God left as he found, involved int he guilt of Adams transgression without any personal sin, when he withdrew some others as guilty as they.

Sublapsarian is opposed to supralapsarian.

Sublation

SUBLATION, noun [Latin] The act of taking or carrying away.

Sublet

SUBLET, verb transitive [sub and let.] To underlet; to lease, as a lessee to another person. [Unusual.]

Sublevation

SUBLEVATION, noun [Latin] The act of raising on high.

Sublieutenant

SUBLIEUTENANT, noun An officer in the royal regiment of artillery and fusileers, in which are no ensigns, and who is the same as second lieutenant.

Subligation

SUBLIGATION, noun [Latin , sub and ligo, to bind.] The act of binding underneath.

Sublimable

SUBLIMABLE, adjective [from sublime.] That may be sublimated; capable of being raised by heat into vapor, and again condensed by cold.

Sublimableness

SUBLIMABLENESS, noun The quality of being sublimable.

Sublimate

SUBLIMATE, verb transitive [from sublime.]

1. To bring a solid substance, as camphor or sulphur, into the state of vapor by heat, which on cooling, returns again to the solid state. [See Sublimation.]

2. To refine and exalt; to highthen; to elevate.

And as his actions rose, so raise they still their vein, in words whose weight best suits a sublimated strain.

SUBLIMATE, noun The product of a sublimation. Corrosive sublimate is the muriate of mercury when it has undergone sublimation. It is one of the most virulent of the mineral poisons.

Blue sublimate is a preparation of mercury with flower of brimstone and sal ammoniac; used in painting.

SUBLIMATE, adjective Brought into a state of vapor by heat and again condensed, as solid substances.

Sublimated

SUBLIMATED, participle passive Brought into a state of vapor by heat, as a solid substance; refined.

Sublimating

SUBLIMATING, participle present tense Converting into the state of vapor by heat, and condensing; as solid substances.

Sublimation

SUBLIMATION, noun

1. The operation of bringing a solid substance into the state of vapor by heat, and condensing it again into a solid by cold. sublimation bears the same relation to a solid, that distillation does to a liquid. Both processes purify the substances to which they are severally applied, by separating them from the fixed and grosser matters with which they are connected.

2. Exaltation; elevation; act of highthening or improving.

Religion, the perfection, refinement and sublimation of morality.

Sublime

SUBLI'ME, adjective [Latin sublimis.]

1. High in place; exalted aloft.

Sublime on these a tow'r of steel is rear'd.

2. High in excellence; exalted by nature; elevated.

Can it be that souls sublime

Return to visit our terrestrial clime?

3. High in style or sentiment; lofty; grand.

Easy in style thy work, in sense sublime

4. Elevated by joy; as sublime with expectation.

5. Lofty of mein; elevated in manner.

His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd

Absolute rule.

SUBLI'ME, noun A grand or lofty style; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.

The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase--

SUBLI'ME, verb transitive To sublimate, which see.

1. To raise on high.

2. To exalt; to highten; to improve.

The sun--

Which not alone the southern wit sublimes,

But ripens spirits in cold northern climes.

SUBLI'ME, verb intransitive To be brought or changed into a state of vapor by heat, and then condensed by cold, as a solid substance.

Particles of antimony which will not sublime alone.

Sublimed

SUBLI'MED, participle passive Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and when cooled, changed to a solid state.

Sublimely

SUBLI'MELY, adverb With elevated conceptions; loftily; as, to express one's self sublimely

In English lays, and all sublimely great,

Thy Homer charms with all his ancient heat.

Sublimeness

SUBLI'MENESS, noun Loftiness of style or sentiment; sublimity.

Subliming

SUBLI'MING, participle present tense Sublimating; exalting.

Sublimity

SUBLIM'ITY, noun [Latin sublimitas.]

1. Elevation of place; lofty highth.

2. Highth in excellence; loftiness of nature or character;

moral grandeur; as God's incomprehensible sublimity

The sublimity of the character of Christ owes nothing to his historians.

3. In oratory and composition, lofty conceptions, or such conceptions expressed in corresponding language; loftiness of sentiment or style.

Milton's distinguishing excellence lies in the sublimity of his thoughts.

Sublingual

SUBLIN'GUAL, adjective [Latin sub and lingua, the tongue.]

Situated under the tongue; as the sublingual glands.

Sublunar

SUBLU'NAR

SUB'LUNARY, adjective [Latin sub and luna, the moon.] Literally, beneath the moon, but sublunary, which is the word chiefly used, denotes merely terrestrial, earthly, pertaining to this world.

All things sublunary are subject to change.

Sublunary

SUB'LUNARY, a. [L. sub and luna, the moon.] Literally, beneath the moon, but sublunary, which is the word chiefly used, denotes merely terrestrial, earthly, pertaining to this world. All things sublunary are subject to change.

Subluxation

SUBLUXA'TION, noun [sub and luxation.] In surgery, a violent sprain; also, an incomplete dislocation.

Submarine

SUBMARINE, adjective [Latin sub and marinus, from mare, the sea.]

Being, acting or growing under water in the sea; as submarine navigators; submarine plants.

Submaxillary

SUBMAX'ILLARY, adjective [Latin sub and maxilla, the jaw-bone.] Situated under the jaw.

The submaxillary glands are two salivatory glands, situated one on either side, immediately within the angle of the lower jaw.

Submediant

SUBME'DIANT, noun In music, the sixth note, or middle note between the octave and subdominant.

Submerge

SUBMERGE, verb transitive submerj'. [Latin submergo; sub and mergo, to plunge.]

1. To put under water; to plunge.

2. To cover or overflow with water; to drown.

So half my Egypt was submerg'd.

SUBMERGE, verb intransitive submerj'. To plunge under water, as swallows.

Submerged

SUBMERG'ED, participle passive Put under water; overflowed.

Submerging

SUBMERG'ING, participle present tense Putting under water; overflowing.

Submerse

SUBMERSE

SUBMERS'ED, adjective submers'. [Latin submersus.] Being or growing under water, as the leaves of aquatic plants.

Submersed

SUBMERS'ED, a. submers'. [L. submersus.] Being or growing under water, as the leaves of aquatic plants.

Submersion

SUBMER'SION, noun [Latin submersus.]

1. The act of putting under water or causing to be overflowed; as the submersion of an isle or tract of land.

2. The act of plunging under water; the act of drowning.

Subminister

SUBMIN'ISTER

SUBMIN'ISTRANT, adjective Subservient; serving in subordination. [Not in use.]

Subministrant

SUBMIN'ISTRANT, a. Subservient; serving in subordination. [Not in use.]

Subministrate

SUBMIN'ISTRATE, verb transitive [Latin subministro; sub and ministro.]

To supply; to afford. [Not in use.]

SUBMIN'ISTER, verb intransitive To subserve; to be useful to.

Our passions--subminister to the best and worst of purposes.

[Not in use.] [See Minister and Administer.]

Subministration

SUBMINISTRA'TION, noun The act of furnishing or supplying. [Not in use.]

Submiss

SUBMISS', adjective [Latin submissus, submitto.] Submissive; humble; obsequious. [Rarely used, and in poetry only.]

Submission

SUBMIS'SION, noun [Latin submissio, from submitto.]

1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another.

Submission, dauphin! 'tis a mere French word;

We English warriors wot not what it means.

2. Acknowledgment of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior.

In all submission and humility,

York doth present himself unto your highness.

3. Acknowledgment of a fault; confession or error.

Be not as extreme in submission as in offense.

4. Obedience; compliance with the commands or laws of a superior. submission of children to their parents is an indispensable duty.

5. Resignation; a yielding of one's will to the will or appointment of a superior without murmuring. Entire and cheerful submission to the will of God is a christian duty of prime excellence.

Submissive

SUBMISS'IVE, adjective Yielding to the will or power of another; obedient.

1. Humble; acknowledging one's inferiority; testifying one's submission.

Her at his feet submissive in distress,

He thus with peaceful words uprais'd.

Submissively

SUBMISS'IVELY, adverb With submission; with acknowledgment of inferiority; humbly.

The goddess,

Soft in her tone, submissively replies.

Submissiveness

SUBMISS'IVENESS, noun A submissive temper or disposition.

1. Humbleness; acknowledgment of inferiority.

2. Confession of fault.

Frailty gets pardon by submissiveness

Submissly

SUBMISS'LY, adverb Humbly; with submission. [Little used.]

Submissness

SUBMISS'NESS, noun Humbleness; obedience. [Little used.]

Submit

SUBMIT', verb transitive [Latin submitto; sub, under, and mitto, to send.]

1. To let down; to cause to sink or lower.

Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

[This use of the word is nearly or wholly obsolete.]

2. To yield, resign or surrender to the power, will or authority of another; with the reciprocal pronoun.

Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hand. Genesis 16:9.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands. Ephesians 5:22.

SUBMIT yourselves to every ordinance of man. 1 Peter 2:13.

3. To refer; to leave or commit to the discretion of judgment of another; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court.

SUBMIT', verb intransitive To surrender; to yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance. The enemy submitted.

The revolted provinces presently submitted.

1. To yield one's opinion to the opinion or authority of another. On hearing the opinion of the court, the counsel submitted without further argument.

2. To be subject; to acquiesce in the authority of another.

To thy husband's will

Thine shall submit--

3. To be submissive; to yield without murmuring.

Our religion requires us--to submit to pain, disgrace and even death.

Submitted

SUBMIT'TED, participle passive Surrendered; resigned; yielded; referred.

Submitter

SUBMIT'TER, noun One who submits.

Submitting

SUBMIT'TING, participle present tense Surrendering; resigning; yielding; referring to another for decision.

Submultiple

SUBMUL'TIPLE, noun [See Multiply.] A number or quantity which is contained in another a certain number of times, or is an aliquot part of it. Thus 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times. The word is used as an adjective also; as a submultiple number; submultiple ratio.

Subnascent

SUBNAS'CENT, adjective [Latin sub and nascor.] Growing underneath.

Subnect

SUBNECT', verb transitive [Latin subnecto.] To tie, buckle or fasten beneath. [Not in use.]

Subnormal

SUBNOR'MAL, noun [Latin sub and norma, a rule.] A subperpendicular, or a line under the perpendicular to a curve.

Subnude

SUBNU'DE, adjective [Latin sub and nudus, naked.] In botany, almost naked or bare of leaves.

Subobscurely

SUBOBSCU'RELY, adverb Somewhat obscurely or darkly.

Suboccipital

SUBOCCIP'ITAL, adjective Being under the occiput; as the suboccipital nerves.

Suboctave

SUBOC'TAVE

SUBOC'TUPLE, adjective [Latin sub and octavus or octuple.] Containing one

part of eight.

Subocular

SUBOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin sub and oculus.] Being under the eye.

Suborbicular

SUBORBIC'ULAR

SUBORBIC'ULATE, adjective [Latin sub and orbiculatus.] Almost orbiculate or orbicular; nearly circular.

Suborbiculate

SUBORBIC'ULATE, a. [L. sub and orbiculatus.] Almost orbiculate or orbicular; nearly circular.

Subordinacy

SUBOR'DINACY, noun [See Subordinate.]

1. The state of being subordinate or subject to control; as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason.

2. Series of subordination. [Little used.]

Subordinancy

SUBOR'DINANCY, noun [Not in use. See Subordinacy.]

Subordinate

SUBOR'DINATE, adjective [Latin sub and ordinatus, from ordo, order.]

1. Inferior in order, in nature, in dignity, in power, importance, etc.; as subordinate officers.

It was subordinate not enslaved, to the understanding.

2. Descending in a regular series.

The several kinds and subordinate species of each, are easily distinguished.

SUBOR'DINATE, verb transitive To place in order or rank below something else; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another; to subordinate temporal to spiritual things.

1. To make subject; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

Subordinated

SUBOR'DINATED, participle passive Placed in an inferior rank; considered as of inferior importance; subjected.

Subordinately

SUBOR'DINATELY, adverb In a lower rank or of inferior importance.

1. In a series regularly descending.

Subordination

SUBORDINA'TION, noun [See Subordinate.]

1. The state of being inferior to another; inferiority of rank or dignity.

2. A series regularly descending.

Natural creatures having a local subordination--

3. Place of rank among inferiors.

--Persons, who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors.

4. Subjection; state of being under control or government.

The most glorious military achievements would be a calamity and a curse, if purchased at the expense of habits of subordination and love of order.

Suborn

SUBORN', verb transitive [Latin suborno; sub and orno. The sense of orno, in this word, and the primary sense, is to put on, to furnish. Hence suborno, to furnish privately, that is, to bribe.]

1. In law, to procure a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

2. To procure privately or by collusion.

Or else thou art suborn'd against his honor.

3. To procure by indirect means.

Those who by despair suborn their death.

Subornation

SUBORNA'TION, noun In law, the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

1. The crime of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action.

Suborned

SUBORN'ED, participle passive Procured to take a false oath, or to do a bad action.

Suborner

SUBORN'ER, noun One who procures another to take a false oath, or to do a bad action.

Suborning

SUBORN'ING, participle present tense Procuring one to take a false oath, or to do a criminal action.

Subovate

SUBO'VATE, adjective [Latin sub and ovatus, from ovum, an egg.]

Almost ovate; nearly in the form of an egg.

Subpena

SUBPE'NA, noun [Latin sub and poena, pain, penalty.]

A writ commanding the attendance in court of the person on whom it is served; as witnesses, etc.

SUBPE'NA, verb transitive To serve with a writ of subpena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ.

Subperpendicular

SUBPERPENDIC'ULAR, noun [sub and perpendicular.]

A subnormal, which see.

Subpetiolate

SUBPET'IOLATE, adjective [sub and petiole.] In botany, having a very short petiole.

Subprior

SUBPRI'OR, noun [sub and prior.] The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

Subpurchaser

SUBPUR'CHASER, noun A purchaser who buys of a purchaser.

Subquadrate

SUBQUAD'RATE, adjective Nearly square.

Subquadruple

SUBQUAD'RUPLE, adjective [sub and quadruple.] Containing one part of four; as subquadruple proportion.

Subquinquefid

SUBQUIN'QUEFID, adjective [sub and quinquefid.] Almost quinfuefid.

Subquintuple

SUBQUIN'TUPLE, adjective [sub and quintuple.] Containing one part of five; as subquintuple proportion.

Subramous

SUBRA'MOUS, adjective [Latin sub and ramosus, full of branches.]

In botany, having few branches.

Subrector

SUBREC'TOR, noun [sub and rector.] A rector's deputy or substitute.

Subreption

SUBREP'TION, noun [Latin subreptio, from subrepo, to creep under.]

The act of obtaining a favor by surprise or unfair representation, that is, by suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.

Subreptitious

SUBREPTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin surreptitius, supra.] Falsely crept in; fraudulently obtained. [See Surreptitious.]

Subrogate

SUB'ROGATE, verb transitive [Latin subrogo.] To put in the place of another. [Not in use. See Surrogate.]

Subrogation

SUBROGA'TION, noun In the civil law, the substituting of one person in the place of another and giving him his rights.

Subrotund

SUBROTUND', adjective [Latin sub and rotundus, round.] Almost round.

Subsaline

SUBSALI'NE, adjective Moderately saline or salt.

Subsalt

SUB'SALT, noun A salt with less acid than is sufficient to neutralize its radicals; or a salt having an excess of the base.

Subscapular

SUBSCAP'ULAR, adjective [Latin sub and scapula.] The subscapular artery

is the large branch of the axillary artery, which rises near the lowest margin of the scapula.

Subscribe

SUBSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin subscribo; sub and scribo, to write.]

1. To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to something written, or to bind one's self by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond or articles of agreement.

2. To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts; and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies of records.

3. To promise to give by writing one's name; as, each man subscribed ten dollars or ten shillings.

4. To submit. [Not in use.]

SUBSCRI'BE, verb intransitive To promise to give a certain sum by setting one's name to a paper. The paper was offered and many subscribed.

1. To assent; as, I could not subscribe to his opinion.

Subscribed

SUBSCRI'BED, participle passive Having a name or names written underneath. The petition is subscribed by two thousand persons.

1. Promised by writing the name and sum.

A large sum is subscribed

Subscriber

SUBSCRI'BER, noun One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

1. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map and the like.

Subscribing

SUBSCRI'BING, participle present tense Writing one's name underneath; assenting to or attesting by writing the name beneath; entering one's name as a purchaser.

Subscription

SUBSCRIP'TION, noun [Latin subscriptio.] Any thing, particularly a paper, with names subscribed.

1. The act of subscribing or writing one's name underneath; name subscribed; signature.

2. Consent or attestation given by underwriting the name.

3. The act of contributing to any undertaking.

4. Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed. We speak of an individual subscription or of the whole subscription to a fund.

5. Submission; obedience. [Not in use.]

Subsection

SUBSEC'TION, noun [Latin sub and sectio.] The part or division of a section; a subdivision; the section of a section.

Subsecutive

SUBSEC'UTIVE, adjective [Latin subsequor, subsecutus.]

Following in a train or succession. [Little used.]

Subsemitone

SUBSEM'ITONE, noun In music, the sharp seventh or sensible of any key.

Subseptuple

SUBSEP'TUPLE, adjective [Latin sub and septuplus.] Containing one of seven parts.

Subsequence

SUB'SEQUENCE, noun [Latin subsequor, subsequens; sub and sequor, to follow.] A following; a state of coming after something.

Subsequent

SUB'SEQUENT, adjective [Latin subsequens, supra.]

1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.

2. Following in the order of place or succession; succeeding; as a subsequent clause in a treaty. What is obscure in a passage may be illustrated by subsequent words.

Subsequently

SUB'SEQUENTLY, adverb At a later time; in time after something else. Nothing was done at the first meeting; what was subsequently transacted, I do not know.

1. After something else in order. These difficulties will be subsequently explained.

Subserve

SUBSERVE, verb transitive subserv.' [Latin subservio; sub and servio, to serve.]

To serve in subordination; to serve instrumentally. In most engines, we make the laws of matter subserve the purposes of art.

Not made to rule,

But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

Subservience

SUBSERV'IENCE

SUBSERV'IENCY, noun Instrumental use; use or operation that promotes some purpose.

--The body, wherein appears much fitness, use and subserviency to infinite functions.

There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends.

Subserviency

SUBSERV'IENCY, n. Instrumental use; use or operation that promotes some purpose. --The body, wherein appears much fitness, use and subserviency to infinite functions. There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends.

Subservient

SUBSERV'IENT, adjective [Latin subserviens.] Useful as an instrument to promote a purpose; serving to promote some end.

Hammond had an incredible dexterity, scarcely ever reading any thing which he did not make subservient in one kind or other.

1. Subordinate; acting as a subordinate instrument. These are the creatures of God, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.

These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another.

Subserviently

SUBSERV'IENTLY, adverb In a subservient manner.

Subsessile

SUBSES'SILE, adjective [Latin sub and sessilis.] In botany, almost sessile; having very short footstalks.

Subsextuple

SUBSEX'TUPLE, adjective [Latin sub and sextuplus.] Containing one part in six.

Subside

SUBSI'DE, verb intransitive [Latin subsido; sub and sido, to settle. See Set.]

1. To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle; as lees.

2. To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to become tranquil. Let the passions subside The tumults of war will subside Christ commanded, and the storm subsided.

3. To tend downwards; to sink; as a subsiding hill. The land subsides into a plain.

4. To abate; to be reduced.

In cases of danger, pride and envy naturally subside

Subsidence

SUBSI'DENCE

SUBSI'DENCY, noun The act or process of sinking or falling, as the lees of liquors.

1. The act of sinking or gradually descending, as ground.

Subsidency

SUBSI'DENCY, n. The act or process of sinking or falling, as the lees of liquors. 1. The act of sinking or gradually descending, as ground.

Subsidiary

SUBSID'IARY, adjective [Latin subsidiarius. See Subsidy.]

1. Aiding; assistant; furnishing help. subsidiary troops are troops of one nation hired by another for military service.

2. Furnishing additional supplies; as a subsidiary stream.

SUBSID'IARY, noun An assistant; an auxiliary; he or that which contributes aid or additional supplies.

Subsidize

SUB'SIDIZE, verb transitive [from subsidy.] To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of another by the payment of a subsidy to him. Great Britain subsidized some of the German powers in the late war with France.

Subsidized

SUB'SIDIZED, participle passive Engaged as an auxiliary by means of a subsidy.

Subsidizing

SUB'SIDIZING, participle present tense Purchasing the assistance of by subsidies.

Subsidy

SUB'SIDY, noun [Latin subsidium, from subsido, literally to be or sit under or by.]

1. Aid in money; supply given; a tax; something furnished for aid, as by the people to their prince; as the subsidies granted formerly to the kings of England.

Subsidies were a tax, not immediately on property, but on persons in respect of their reputed estates, after the nominal rate of 4s. the pound for lands, and 2 Samuel 8:1d. for goods.

2. A sum of money paid by one prince or nation to another, to purchase the service of auxiliary troops, or the aid of such foreign prince in a war against an enemy. Thus Great Britain paid subsidies to Austria and Prussia, to engage them to resist the progress of the French.

Subsign

SUBSIGN, verb transitive subsi'ne. [Latin subsigno; sub and signo, to sign.]

To sign under; to write beneath. [Little used.]

Subsignation

SUBSIGNA'TION, noun The act of writing the name under something for attestation. [Little used.]

Subsist

SUBSIST', verb intransitive [Latin subsisto; sub and sisto, to stand, to be fixed.]

1. To be; to have existence; applicable to matter or spirit.

2. To continue; to retain the present state.

Firm we subsist but possible to swerve.

3. To live; to be maintained with food and clothing. How many of the human race subsist on the labors of others! How many armies have subsisted on plunder!

4. To inhere; to have existence by means of something else; as qualities that subsist in substances.

SUBSIST', verb transitive To feed; to maintain; to support with provisions. The king subsisted his troops on provisions plundered from the enemy.

Subsistence

SUBSIST'ENCE

SUBSIST'ENCY, noun Real being; as a chain of differing subsistencies.

Not only the things had subsistence but the very images were of some creatures existing.

1. Competent provisions; means of supporting life.

His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.

2. That which supplies the means of living; as money, pay or wages.

3. Inherence in something else, as the subsistence of qualities in bodies.

Subsistency

SUBSIST'ENCY, n. Real being; as a chain of differing subsistencies. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.1. Competent provisions; means of supporting life. His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.2. That which supplies the means of living; as money, pay or wages.3. Inherence in something else, as the subsistence of qualities in bodies.

Subsistent

SUBSIST'ENT, adjective [Latin subsistens.] Having real being; as a subsistent spirit.

1. Inherent; as qualities subsistent in matter.

Subsoil

SUB'SOIL, noun [sub and soil.] The bed or stratum of earth which lies between the surface soil and the base on which they rest.

Subspecies

SUBSPE'CIES, noun [sub and species.] A subordinate species; a division of a species.

Substance

SUB'STANCE, noun [Latin substantia, substo; sub and sto, to stand.]

1. In a general sense, being; something existing by itself; that which really is or exists; equally applicable to matter or spirit. Thus the soul of man is called an immaterial substance a cogitative substance a substance endued with thought. We say, a stone is a hard substance tallow is a soft substance

2. That which supports accidents.

That which subsists by itself is called substance; that which subsists in and by another, is called a mode or manner of being.

3. The essential part; the main or material part. In this epitome, we have the substance of the whole book.

This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.

4. Something real, not imaginary; something solid, not empty.

Heroic virtue did his actions guide,

And he the substance not th' appearance chose.

5. Body; corporeal nature or matter.

The qualities of plants are more various than those of animal substances.

6. Goods; estate; means of living. Job's substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, etc. Job 1:3.

We are--exhausting our substance but not for our own interest.

Substantial

SUBSTAN'TIAL, adjective Belonging to substance; real; actually existing.

If this atheist would have his chance to be a real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar.

1. Real; solid; true; not seeming or imaginary.

If happiness be a substantial good.

The substantial ornaments of virtue.

2. Corporeal; material.

The rainbow appears like a substantial arch in the sky.

3. Having substance; strong; stout; solid; as substantial cloth; a substantial fence or gate.

4. Possessed of goods or estate; responsible; moderately wealthy; as a substantial freeholder or farmer; a substantial citizen.

Substantiality

SUBSTANTIAL'ITY, noun The state of real existence.

1. Corporeity; materiality.

The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality

Substantially

SUBSTAN'TIALLY, adverb In the manner of a substance; with reality of existence.

In him his Father shone, substantially express'd.

1. Strongly; solidly.

2. Truly; solidly; really.

The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly observe them substantially religious towards God, chaste and temperate.

3. In substance; in the main; essentially.

This answer is substantially the same as that before given.

4. With competent goods or estate.

Substantialness

SUBSTAN'TIALNESS, noun The state of being substantial.

1. Firmness; strength; power of holding or lasting; as the substantialness of a wall or column.

Substantials

SUBSTAN'TIALS, noun plural Essential parts.

Substantiate

SUBSTAN'TIATE, verb transitive To make to exist.

1. To establish by proof or competent evidence; to verify; to make good, as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration.

Substantive

SUB'STANTIVE, adjective Betokening existence; as the substantive verb.

1. Solid; depending on itself. [Not in use.]

SUB'STANTIVE, noun In grammar, a noun or name; the part of speech which expresses something that exists, either material or immaterial. Thus man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives. [Better called name, Latin nomen, or even noun, a corruption of nomen.]

Substantively

SUB'STANTIVELY, adverb In substance; essentially.

1. In grammar, as a name or noun. An adjective or pronoun may be used substantively

Substile

SUB'STILE, noun [sub and stile.] The line of a dial on which the stile is erected.

Substitute

SUB'STITUTE, verb transitive [Latin substituo; sub and statuo, to set.]

To put in the place of another.

Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others.

SUB'STITUTE, noun One person put in the place of another to answer the same purpose. A person may be a substitute with full powers to act for another in an office. Representatives in legislation are the substitutes of their constituents. The orthodox creed of christians is that Christ dies as the substitute of sinners.

1. One thing put in the place of another. If you have not one medicine, use another as its substitute

Substitution

SUBSTITU'TION, noun The act of putting one person or thing in the place of another to supply its place; as the substitution of an agent, attorney or representative to act for one in his absence; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver, as a circulating medium.

1. In grammar, syllepsis, or the use of one word for another.

Substract

SUBSTRACT', verb transitive [Latin subtraho, subractum.] To subtract.

Note.--Substract was formerly used in analogy with abstract. But in modern usage, it is written according to the Latin, subtract. See this word and its derivatives.

Substraction

SUBSTRAC'TION, noun In law, the withdrawing or withholding of some right. Thus the substraction of conjugal rights, is when either the husband or wife withdraws from the other and lives separate. The substraction of a legacy, is the withholding or detaining of it from the legatee by the executor. In like manner, the withholding of any service, rent, duty or custom, is a substraction for which the law gives a remedy.

Substratum

SUBSTRA'TUM, noun [Latin substratus, spread under; sub and sterno.]

1. That which is laid or spread under; a layer of earth lying under another. In agriculture, the subsoil.

2. In metaphysics, the matter or substance supposed to furnish the basis in which the perceptible qualities inhere.

Substruction

SUBSTRUC'TION, noun [Latin substructio.] Under building.

Substructure

SUBSTRUC'TURE, noun [Latin sub and structure.] An under structure; a foundation.