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during to any state, as of mixing two bodies completely, 
or beating any thing to a small powder.—There are of con¬ 
coction two periods: the one assimilation, or absolute con¬ 
version and subaction ; the other maturation ; whereof the 
former is most conspicuous in living creatures, in which 
there is an absolute conversion and assimilation of the 
nourishment into the body. Bacon. 
SU'BALTERN, adj. [subalterns, Fr.] Inferior; sub¬ 
ordinate; what.in different respects is both superior and 
inferior. It is used in the army of all officers below a 
captain.—One, while a subaltern officer, was every day 
complaining against the pride of colonels towards their 
officers; yet, after he received his commission for a regi¬ 
ment, he confessed the spirit of colonelship was coming fast 
upon him, and it daily increased to his death. Swift. 
SU'BALTERN, s. A subaltern officer. 
Love’s subalterns, a duteous band. 
Like watchmen round their chief appear; 
Each had his lanthorn in his hand. 
And Venus, mask’d, brought up the rear. Prior. 
SUBALTE'RNATE, adj. [subalternus, Lat.] Suc¬ 
ceeding by turns. Diet. —'Subordinate. Mason. —To¬ 
gether with all their subalternate and several kinds. Eve¬ 
lyn. 
SUB ALTERNATION, s. Act of succeeding by course. 
Bullokar. —State of inferiority ; state of being in subjection 
to another.—Woman was created for man’s sake to be his 
helper, in regard to the having and bringing up of children, 
whereunto it was not possible they could concur, unless 
there were sub alternation between them, which subalter¬ 
nation is naturally grounded upon inequality, because things 
equal in every respect are never willingly directed one by 
another. Hoolcer. 
SUBA'QUEOUS, adj. [sub and aqua, Lat.] Lying 
under water.—All plants, except the subaqueous, grow in 
a mixed earth, moistened with rain and dew, and exposed 
to the atmosphere. Kirwan. 
SUBARKAN, a village of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey, 
on the Euphrates; 75 miles east-south-east of Kerkesieh. 
SUBARRA'TION, s. [low Lat. subarrare, “ arrha- 
bone uxorem sibi desponsare.” Du Cange.'] The ancient 
custom of betrothing.—In the old manual for the use of 
Salisbury, before the minister proceeds to the marriage, he is 
directed to ask for the woman’s dowry, viz., the tokens of 
spousage: and by these tokens of spousage are to be under¬ 
stood rings, or money, or some other things to be given to 
the woman by the man ; which said giving is called subar- 
rat.ion, (i. e. wedding or covenanting), especially when it 
is done by the giving of a ring. Wheat ly. 
SUBASTRI'NGENT, adj. Astringent in a small de¬ 
gree. 
SUBBE'ADLE, s. An under beadle.—They ought not 
to execute those precepts by simple messengers, or subbea¬ 
dles, but in their own persons. Ay life. 
SUBBULGHUR,,a town and fortress of Hindostan, pro¬ 
vince of Agra, district of Gohd, but subject to the Mahrattas. 
It is surrounded by a good stone wall, with a number of bas¬ 
tions, but has very few cannon mounted. The country in 
the vicinity is well cultivated. Lat. 26. 22. N. long. 75. 
25. N. 
SUBBULGHUR, a town of Hindostan, province of Delhi, 
situated on the eastern side of the Ganges, and now included 
in the district of Moradabad. It formerly possessed a stone 
fort, which is now in a ruinous state; but the town is im¬ 
proving since it came under the British authority. Lat. 29. 
48. N. long. 78. 10. E. 
SUBCELE'STIAL, adj. Placed beneath the heavens.— 
The most refined glories of subcelestial excellencies are but 
more faint resemblances of these. Glanville. 
SUBCHA'NTER, s. [succentor, Lat.] The deputy of 
the precentor in a cathedral. 
That Holy, Holy, Holy, which they cry. 
That are sub-chanters of heaven’s harmony. Davies. 
SUBCLA'VIAN, adj. [Lat.] Applied to any thing 
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under the armpit or shoulder, whether artery, nerve, vein, 
or muscle. Suincy. —The liver, though seated on the right 
side, yet, by the subclavian division, doth equi-distantly 
communicate its activity unto either arm. Brown. 
SUBCOMMITTEE, s. A subordinate committee._- 
Their sequestrators and subcommittees [were] men for the 
most part of insatiable hands. Milton. 
SUBCONSTELLATION, s. A subordinate or second¬ 
ary constellation.—As to the picture of the seven stars, if 
thereby be meant the Pleiades, or subconstellations upon the 
back of Taurus, with what congruity they are described in 
a clear night an ordinary eye may discover. Brown. 
SUBCONTRACTED, part. adj. Contracted after a 
former contract. 
Your claim, 
I bar it in the interest of my wife ; 
’Tis she is subcontracted to this lord. 
And I her husband contradict your banns. Shakspeare. 
SUBCO'NTRARY, adj. Contrary in an inferior degree. 
—If two particular propositions differ in quality, they are 
subcontraries: as, some vine is a tree ; some vine is not a 
tree. These may be both true together, but they can never 
be both false. Watts. 
SUBCUT A'NEOUS, adj. Lying under the skin. 
SUBDE'ACON, s. [subdiaconus, Lat.] In the Romish 
church they have a subdeacon, who is the deacon’s servant. 
Ayliffe. 
SUBDE'ACONRY, or Subde'aconshjp, s. The Ro¬ 
mish order and office of a subdeacon.—Ye come to be pro¬ 
moted here to the holye order of subdeconrie. Martin. 
SUBDE'AN, s. [subdecanus, Lat.] The vicegerent of 
a dean.—-Whenever the dean and chapter confirm any act, 
that such confirmation may be valid, the dean must join in 
person, and not in the person of a deputy or subdean only. 
Ayliffe. 
SUBDE'ANERY, s. The rank and office of subdean.— 
The subdeanery of York, founded anno 1229, has the im¬ 
propriation of Preston in Holdemess. Bacon. 
SUBDE'CUPLE, adj. [sub and decuplus, Lat.] Con¬ 
taining one part of ten. 
SUBDERISO'RIOUS, adj. [sub and derisor, Lat.] 
Scoffing or ridiculing with tenderness and delicacy. Not 
used. —This subderisorious mirth is far from giving any 
offence to us: it is rather a pleasant condiment of our con¬ 
versation. More. 
SUBDITI'TIOUS, adj. [subdititius, Lat.] Put secretly 
in the place of something else. 
To SUBDIVE'RSIFY, v. a. To diversify again what is 
already diversified.—The same wool one man felts into a 
hat, another weaves it into cloth, another into arras; and 
these variously sub diversified according to the fancy of the 
artificer. Hale. 
To SUBDIVIDE, v. a. [subdiviser, Fr.J To divide 
a part into yet more parts.—When Brutus and Cassius were 
overthrown, soon after Antonius and Octavianus brake and 
subdivided. Bacon. 
SUBDIVISION, s. [subdivision, Fr.] The act of sub¬ 
dividing.-—When any of the parts of any idea are farther 
divided, in order to a clear explication of the whole, this is 
called a subdivision ; as when a year is divided into months, 
each month into days, and each day into hours, which may 
be farther subdivided into minutes and seconds. Watts. — 
The parts distinguished by a second division.—How can we 
see such a mulitude of souls cast under so many subdivi¬ 
sions of misery, without reflecting on the absurdity of a 
government that sacrifices the happiness of so many reason¬ 
able beings to the glory of one ? Addison. 
SU'BDOLOUS, adj. [subdolus, Lat.] Cunning; sub¬ 
tle ; sly.— Subdolous and dishonest actions. Bp. Rey¬ 
nolds. 
SUBDU'ABLE, adj. That may be subdued. Sher¬ 
wood. —He hath indeed confessed in a certain place, that he 
had a natural touch of enthusiasm in his complexion ; but 
such as (he thanks God) was ever governable enough ; and 
which 
