subrogate 
in another's place, substitute: see surrogate,'] 
To put in the place of another ; substitute. See 
surrogate. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, iv. 8. 
subrogation (sub-ro-ga'shon), 11. [= F. sub- 
rogation = Sp. subrogacion = Pg. subrogacao 
= It. surrogasione, < ML. subro(/ntio(n-), substi- 
tution, < L. siibrogare, surroaare, substitute : see 
subrogate.'] 1. In law, the act or operation of 
law in vesting a person who has satisfied, or is 
ready to satisfy, a claim which ought to be 
borne by another with the right to hold and 
enforce the claim against such other for his own 
indemnification. 
Subrogation is "purely an equitable principle, disre- 
garding forms, and aiming to do exact justice by pla- 
cing one who has been compelled to pay the debt of an- 
other as near as possible in the position of him to whom 
the payment was made." Barton. 
2. In a general sense, succession of any kind, 
whether of a person to a person, or of a person 
to a thing. 
sub rosa (sub ro'za). [L. : sub, under; rosa, 
abl. of rosa, arose.]" Under the rose ; privately. 
The rose is the emblem of silence. 
SUbsacral (sub-sa'kral), a. Situated below 
(ventrSd of) the sacrum; placed in relation 
with the venter or concavity of the sacrum; 
presacral (in man) : as, subsaeral foramina ; 
Htibsacral divisions of nerves. 
SUbsaline (sub-sa-lin' or -sa'lin), a. Moderate- 
ly saline or salt. 
subsalt (sub'salt), n. In diem., a basic salt; a 
salt in which two or more equivalents of the 
base, or molecules of the metallic oxid, are 
combined with one of the acids radical, as mer- 
curous subacetate, Hg2(C2H3C>2)2> or cuprous 
chlorid, Cu2Cl2. 
subsannationt (sub-sa-na'shon), . [< LL. sub- 
sannare, pp. sitbsannatus. mock, < L. sub, under, 
+ sannare, mock, < sanna, < Gr. adwac, a mock- 
ing grimace.] Derision; scorn; mockery; dis- 
honor. 
Idolatry is as absolute a subsantuttion and vilification 
of God as malice could invent. 
Dr. H. lime, Mystery of Iniquity, I. v. 11. 
subsaturated (sub-sat'u-ra-ted), a. Not com- 
pletely saturated. 
subsaturatipn (sub-sat-u-ra'shon), n. The 
condition of being subsaturated. 
subscapular (sub-skap'u-lar), a. and n. I. a. 
In auat.: (a) Occupying the under surface of 
the scapula; of or pertaining to that side of 
the shoulder-blade which presents to the ribs. 
(6) Running under or below the scapula, as 
a vessel or nerve Subscapular aponeurosis, the 
subscapular fascia. Subscapular artery, (a) The lar- 
gest branch of the axillary artery, passing along the lower 
border of the scapula. (b) A small branch of the supra- 
scapular artery. Subscapular fascia. See fascia.- 
Subscapular fossa. See fossa i . Subscapular mus- 
cle, the subscapularis. Subscapular nerve, one of three 
branches of the brachial plexus : (a) the upper supplies 
the subscapular muscle ; (ft) the lower supplies the teres 
major muscle ; (c) the long or middle supplies the latis- 
simus dorsi, running in the course of the subscapular ar- 
tery. Subscapular region, see refrion. Subscapu- 
lar vein, a lateral tributary of the axillary vein. 
II. 11. A subscapular vessel or nerve, and 
especially the subscapular muscle. See sub- 
scapularis. 
subscapularis (sub-skap-u-la'ris), .; pi. sub- 
scapulares ; (-rez). [NL. : 'cf. subscapular."] A 
muscle arising from the venter of the scapula, 
and inserted into the lesser tuberosity of the 
hnmerus. Subscapularis minor, an anomalous mus- 
cle in man, occurring about once in eight subjects, hav- 
ing its origin on the axillary border of the scapula and its 
insertion above that of the teres major. Also called sub- 
scapulohunieralis, infraspinatus secundus. 
SUbscapulary (sub-skap'u-la-ri), a. Same as 
subscapular. 
subsclerotic (sub-skle-rot'ik), a. Beneath the 
sclerotic Subsclerotic dropsy, a morbid collection 
of fluid between the choroid and sclerotic coats of the eye. 
SUbscribable (sub-skri'ba-bl), a. [< subscribe 
+ -able.'} Capable of being subscribed. Cole- 
ridge. 
subscribe (sub-skrib'), .; pret. and pp. sub- 
scribed, ppr. subscribing. [= F. souscrire = Sp. 
subscribir = Pg. subscrever = It. soscrivere, < L. 
subscribers, write under, write below, sign one's 
name, < sub, under, + scribere, write : see scribe, ,] 
I. trans. 1. To write beneath: said of what is 
so written or of the handwriting. 
Ador. You'll subscribe 
Your hand to this? 
Camil. And justify 't with my life. 
Massinger, Guardian, Hi. 3. 
I saw in the Court of the . . . Senate house a goodly 
statue, . . . with an honourable Elogium subscribed under- 
neath the same. Coryat, Crudities, I. 69. 
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Hence 2. To sign with one's own hand. 
Let your Friend to you subscribe a Female Name. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
By extension 3. To give consent to, as to 
something written, or to bind one's self to, by 
writing one's name beneath: as, to subscribe a 
covenant or contract. In law subscribe im- 
plies a written or printed signature at the end 
of a document. See sign, '2. 
The Commons would . . . have freed the Clergy from 
fibscribing those of the Thirty-nine Articles which related 
to discipline and Church government. 
E. A. Abbott, Bacon, p. 16. 
4. To attest by writing one's name beneath. 
At last, after many Debatings and Demurs, the Arch- 
bishop yields to this also, and subscribes the Ordinance, 
and sets his Hand unto it. Baker, Chronicles, p. 6". 
This message was subscribed by all my chief tenants. 
Su-ift, Story of the Injured Lady. 
5. To promise to give or pay, by writing one's 
name under a written or printed agreement : 
as, each subscribed $10. 6f. To resign; trans- 
fer by signing to another. 
The king gone to-night? subscribed his power? 
Shak., Lear, i. 2. 24. 
7f. To write down or characterize as. 
Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either I must 
shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. 
Shale., Much Ado, v. 2. 59. 
He who would take Orders must subscribe [himself] slave, 
and take an oath withall, which, unlesse he took with a 
conscience that would retch, he must either strait per- 
jure, or split his faith. 
Hilton, Church-Government, ii., Int. 
II. intrans. 1. To promise a certain sum ver- 
bally, or by signing an agreement ; specifical- 
ly, to undertake to pay a definite amount, in a 
manner or on conditions agreed upon, for a spe- 
cial purpose: as, to subscribe for a newspaper 
or for a book (which may be delivered in instal- 
ments); to subscribe to a series of entertain- 
ments ; to subscribe for railway stock ; also, to 
contribute money to any enterprise, benevolent 
object, etc. In law the word implies that the 
agreement is made in writing. 
This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, 
And others roar aloud, "Subscribe, subscribe!" 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 114. 
"Yes, I paid it, every farthing," replied Squeers, who 
seemed to know the man he had to deal with too well to 
suppose that any blinking of the question would induce 
him to subscribe towards the expenses. 
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, xxxiv. 
Mrs. H., who, being no great reader, contented herself 
with subscribing to the Book-Club. 
Bulwer, My Novel, i. 12. 
2. To give consent; assent as if by signing 
one's name. 
We will all subscribe to thy advice. 
Shak., Tit. And., iv. 2. 130. 
So spake, so wish'd, much-humbled Eve ; but fate 
Subscribed not Milton, P. L., xi. 182. 
The foundations of religion are already established, and 
the principles of salvation subscribed unto by all. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 3. 
The conclusion of the poem is more particular than I 
would choose publicly to subscribe to. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 37. 
3f. To yield; submit. 
For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribe* 
To tender objects. Shak., T. and C., iv. 5. 105. 
Subscribing witness. See witness. 
subscriber (sub-skri'ber), n. [< subscribe + 
-er 1 .] One who subscribes, in any sense of 
that word The subscriber, the one writing or speak- 
ing. [Colloq.] 
subscript (sub'skript), a. and n. [= F. sousrrit 
= Sp. suscrito = It. soscritto, < L. subscriptus, 
pp. of subscribere, write underneath or below : 
see subscribe.'] I. a. Written beneath : as, the 
Greek iota (i) subscript, so written since the 
twelfth century in the improper diphthongs 
a (ai), 13 (r/i), <jj (at): opposed to adscript (as in 
'A;, 'Hi, 'tit). This i had become mute by about 
200 B. c., and was sometimes written (adscript), 
sometimes omitted. 
II. n. Something written beneath. [Rare.] 
Be they postscripts or subscripts, your translators neither 
made them nor recommended them for Scripture. 
Bentley, Free-Thinking, 37. 
subscription (sub-skrip'shon), n. [= F. sou 
scription = Sp. siiscripcion = Pg. subscripcao = 
It. soscrizione, < L. subscriptto(n-), anything 
written underneath, a signature, < subscribere, 
pp. subscriptus, write under, subscribe : see sub- 
script.'] 1 . The act of subscribing, in any sense 
of that word. 2. That which is subscribed. 
(a) Anything underwritten. 
The cross we had seen in the subscription. 
Bacon, New Atlantis. 
subsequency 
(b) The signature attached to a paper. In law subscrip- 
tion implies written signature at the end of a document. 
See signature, 3, sign, v., 2. (c) Consent, agreement, or at- 
testation given by signature. 
The more y light of y e gospell grew, ye more y c )' urged 
their subscriptions to these corruptions. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 5. 
(d) A sum subscribed ; the amount of sums subscribed : 
as, an individual subscription, or the whole subscription, to 
a fund. 
3. A formal agreement to make a payment or 
payments. See subscribe, v. i., 1. 
Where an advance has been made or an expense or lia- 
bility incurred by others in consequence of a subscription, 
before notice given of a withdrawal, the subscription be- 
comes obligatory, provided the advances were authorized 
by a reasonable dependence on the subscription. 
Anderson, Diet, of Law, p. 986. 
4f. Submission; obedience. 
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, 
You owe me no subscription. Shak., Lear, iii. 2. IS. 
[The word subscription is also used attributively, especial- 
ly as noting what is done by means of the subscribing of 
money or by money subscribed. 
The singers were all English; and here we have the 
commencement of the subscription opera. 
J. Ashton, Social Life in Eeign of Queen Anne, II. 29.1 
subscriptive (sub-skrip'tiv), a. [< siibscript + 
-ice.] Of or pertaining to a subscription or sig- 
nature. 
I made the messenger wait while I transcribed it. I 
have endeavoured to imitate the subfcriplive part. 
Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, VIII. 78. (Dames.) 
subscripture (sub'skrip'tur), n. A subordinate 
or lesser scripture. Sir W. Jones, Dissertations 
Relating to Histories, etc., of Asia, p. 401. 
[Rare.] 
subsecive (sub'se-siv), a. [< L. subsecivus, more 
prop, subsicivus, transposed subeisivus, succisi- 
VUH, that is cut off and left remaining (in sur- 
veying lands), hence, left over, remaining (Jiorss 
subsicirx, tempora subsiciva, odd hours, spare 
time), < subsecare, cut away, < sub, under, + 
secure, cut: see secant.~] Remaining; extra; 
spare. [Rare.] 
Surely at last those "subseciix hours" were at hand in 
which he might bring to a fruitful outcome the great 
labour of two-and-thirty years, his never-to-be-written 
" 
"History of Portugal." Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLI. 836. 
subsection (sub'sek"shon), . 1. A part or di- 
vision of a section : as, a subsection of a learned 
society; also, the act of subdividing a section. 
2. In bot. and eoiil., a division of a genus of 
less extent than a section, yet above and in- 
cluding one or more species. 
Sllbsecutet (sub'se-kut), v. t. [< L. subsecutus, 
pp. of subsequi, follow close after: see subse- 
quent.'] To follow so as to overtake; follow 
closely. Hall, Rich. III., an. 3. 
subsecutive (sub-sek'u-tiv), a. [< subsecute + 
-ire.] Following in a train or succession. 
[Rare.] Imp. Diet. 
subsegment (sub'seg"ment). . In entom., 
same as subjoin t. 
subsellium (sub-sel'i-um), n.; pi. sitbsellia 
(-a). [< L. subsellium, bench, seat, < sub, under, 
+" sella, a seat, a chair: see sell?.] Same as 
miserere, 2. 
subsemifusat (sub-sem-i-fu'sa), n. In medieval 
musical notation, a thirty-second note. 
subsemitonet (sub'sem"i-t6n), n. In medieval 
music, same as leading note (which see, under 
leading), or snbtoiiic. 
subsensation (sub'sen-sa'shpn), n. A moder- 
ate or lesser sensation ; a sensation under or 
beside the obvious one. [Rare.] 
As we followed the fortunes of the king, we should all 
the while have been haunted by a subsensation of how, in 
Eossetti's weird phrase, his death was "growing up from 
his birth." The Academy, March 29, 1890, p. 218. 
subsensible (sub-sen'si-bl), a. Deeper than 
the range of the senses ; too profound for the 
senses to reach or grasp. Compare supersensible. 
Through scientific insight we are enabled to enter and 
explain that subiensible world into which all natural phe- 
nomena strike their loots. Tyndall. 
subseptuple (sub-sep'tu-pl), a. Containing 
one of seven parts : having the ratio 1 : 7. 
subsequence (sub'se-kwens), n. [< subsequen(t) 
+ -ce.] The state or act of being subsequent 
or following. 
By which faculty [reminiscence) we are ... able to 
take notice of the order of precedence and subsequence in 
which they are past. 
N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, ii. 3. (Richardson. ) 
subsequency (sub'se-kwen-si), . [As subse- 
quence (see -cy).~] Same as subsequence. 
Why should we question the heliotrope's subsequency to 
the course of the sun ? 
Greenhill, Art of Embalming, p. 336. 
