Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 183

Subordinate (v. t.) To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.

Subordination (n.) The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

Subordination (n.) The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

Subordination (n.) Place of inferior rank.

Subordinative (a.) Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.

Suborned (imp. & p. p.) of Suborn

Suborning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suborn

Suborn (v. t.) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

Suborn (v. t.) To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.

Subornation (n.) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

Subornation (n.) The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.

Suborner (n.) One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

Suboval (a.) Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

Subovate (a.) Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

Subovated (a.) Subovate.

Suboxide (n.) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.

Subpeduncular (a.) Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.

Subpedunculate (a.) Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle.

Subpellucid (a.) Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.

Subpena (n. & v. t.) See Subpoena.

Subpentangular (a.) Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.

Subpericardial (a.) Situated under the cardiac pericardium.

Subperiosteal (a.) Situated under the periosteum.

Subperitoneal (a.) Situated under the peritoneal membrane.

Subpetiolar (a.) Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.

Subpleural (a.) Situated under the pleural membrane.

Subpodophyllous (a.) Situated under the podophyllous tissue of the horse's foot.

Subpoena (n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill.

Subpoenaed (imp. & p. p.) of Subpoena

Subpoenaing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subpoena

Subpoena (v. t.) To serve with a writ of subpoena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.

Subpoenal (a.) Required or done under penalty.

Subpolar (a.) Situated below the poles.

Subpolygonal (a.) Approximately polygonal; somewhat or almost polygonal.

Subprehensile (a.) Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

Subprior (n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.

Subpubic (a.) Situated under, or posterior to, the pubic bones.

Subpulmonary (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lungs.

Subpurchaser (n.) A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.

Subpyriform (a.) Somewhat pyriform.

Subquadrate (a.) Nearly or approximately square; almost square.

Subquadruple (a.) Containing one part of four; in the ratio of one to four; as, subquadruple proportion.

Subquinquefid (a.) Almost quinquefid; nearly quinquefid.

Subquintuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to five; as, subquintuple proportion.

Subreader (n.) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.

Subrector (n.) An assistant restor.

Subreligion (n.) A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration.

Subreption (n.) The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.

Subreptitious (a.) Surreptitious.

Subreptive (a.) Surreptitious.

Subrigid (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff.

Subriguous (a.) Watered or wet beneath; well-watered.

Subrogate (v. t.) To put in the place of another; to substitute.

Subrogation (n.) The act of subrogating.

Subrogation (n.) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor.

Subrotund (a.) Somewhat rotund.

Subsacral (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the sacrum.

Subsaline (a.) Moderately saline or salt.

Subsalt (n.) A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.

Subsannation (n.) Derision; mockery.

Subscapular (a.) Alt. of Subscapulary

Subscapulary (a.) Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.

Subscribable (a.) Capable of being subscribed.

Subscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Subscribe

Subscribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subscribe

Subscribe (v. t.) To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.

Subscribe (v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.

Subscribe (v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.

Subscribe (v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.

Subscribe (v. t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

Subscribe (v. t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.

Subscribe (v. i.) To sign one's name to a letter or other document.

Subscribe (v. i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.

Subscribe (v. i.) To become surely; -- with for.

Subscribe (v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.

Subscribe (v. i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.

Subscribe (v. i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.

Subscriber (n.) One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

Subscriber (n.) One who enters his name for a paper, book, map, or the like.

Subscript (a.) Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.

Subscript (n.) Anything written below.

Subscription (n.) The act of subscribing.

Subscription (n.) That which is subscribed.

Subscription (n.) A paper to which a signature is attached.

Subscription (n.) The signature attached to a paper.

Subscription (n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.

Subscription (n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.

Subscription (n.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.

Subscription (n.) Submission; obedience.

Subscription (n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.

Subscription (n.) A method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.

Subscriptive (a.) Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.

Subsecute (v. t.) To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue.

Subsecutive (a.) Following in a train or succession.

Subsellia (pl. ) of Subsellium

Subsellium (n.) One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges. See Illust. of Stall.

Subsemitone (n.) The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic.

Subsensible (a.) Deeper than the reach of the senses.

Subseptuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to seven.

Subsequence (n.) Alt. of Subsequency

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