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themselves, and were so proceeding downwards in injhulv.m, 
till the superior lords observed, that by this method of sub¬ 
infeudation they lost all their feodal profits of wardships, 
marriages, and estreats, which fell into the hands of these 
mesne or middle lords, who were the immediate superiors of 
the terre-tenant, or him who occupied the land. This occa¬ 
sioned the statute of quia emptores. Bl. Com. vol. ii. 
SUBINGRE'SSION, s. [ingressus, Lat.] Secret entrance. 
Unused. —The pressure of the ambient air is strengthened 
upon the accession of the air sucked out; which forceth the 
neighbouring air to a violent subingression of its parts. 
Boyle, 
To SUBJOI'N, v. a. [subjungo, Lat.] To add at the 
end ; to add afterwards.—He makes an excuse from ignor¬ 
ance, the only thing that could take away the fault; namely, 
that he knew not that he was the high-priest, and subjoins a 
reason. South. 
SUBITA'NEOUS, adj. [subitaneus , Lat.] Sudden; 
hasty. Unused. 
SU'BITANY, adj. [subitaneus , Lat.] Hasty; subita- 
neous. Unused. 
To SU'BJUGATE, v. a. [suhjuguer, Fr., subjugo , Lat.] 
To conquer; to subdue; to bring under dominion by force. 
O fav’rite virgin, that hast warm’d the breast. 
Whose sov’reign dictates subjugate the east! Prior. 
SUBJUGATION, s. [subjugation, Fr. Cotgrave. ] 
The act of subduing.—This was the condition of the learned 
part of the world, aftter their subjugation by the Turks. 
Hale. 
SUBJU'NCTION, s. [from subjungo, Lat.] The state 
of being subjoined; the act of subjoining.—The verb under¬ 
goes in Greek a different formation; and in dependence 
upon, or subjunction to some other verb. Clarke. 
SUBJU'NCTIVE, adj. [subjunctivus, Latin; subjonctif, 
French.] Subjoined to something else. In Grammar. 
The verb undergoes a different formation, to signify the 
same intentions as the indicative, yet not absolutely but re¬ 
latively to some other verb, which is called the subjunctive 
mood. Clarke. 
SUBLAPSA'RIAN, or Subla'psary, adj. and 
lapsus, Lat.] According to Sublapsarians. 
SUBLAPSA'RIAN, s. One who maintains the following 
doctrine. The sub/apsarians say, that Adam having sinned 
freely, and his sin being imputed to all his posterity, God 
did consider mankind, thus lost, with an eye of pity ; and 
having designed to rescue a great number out of this lost 
state, he decreed to send his Son to die for them, to accept of 
his death on their account, and to give them such assistances 
as should be effectual both to convert them to him, and to 
make them persevere to the end; but for the rest, he framed 
no positive act about them, only he left them in that lapsed 
state, without intending that they should have the benefit of 
Christ’s death, or of efficacious and persevering assistances. 
Burnet. 
SUBLA'TION, s. [sublatio, Lat.] The act of taking 
away.—He could not be forsaken by a sublation of union. 
Bp. Hall. 
SUBLEVA'TION, s. [sublevo, Lat] The act of raising 
on high. 
SUB-LIEUTENANT, an officer in the royal regiment of 
artillery and fusileers, in which are no ensigns, who is the 
^ame as second lieutenant. See Lieutenant. 
SUBLI'MABLE, adj. Possible to be sublimed. 
SUBLI'M ABLENESS, s. Quality of admitting sublim¬ 
ation.—He obtained another concrete as to taste and smell, 
and easy sublimableness, as common sal ammoniack. 
Boyle. 
To SU'BLIMATE, v. a. To raise by the force of chemi¬ 
cal fire. To exalt; to heighten; to elevate. 
And as his actions rose, so raise they still their vein 
In words, whose weight best suit a sublimated strain. 
Drayton. 
SU'BLIMATE, s. Any thing raised by fire in the re- 
tort.—Enquire the manner of subliming, and what metals 
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endure subliming, and what body the sublimate makes. 
Bacon. —Quicksilver raised in the retort. 
SU'BLIMATE, adj. Raised by fire in the vessel.—The 
particles of mercury uniting with the acid particles of spirit 
of salt compose mercury sublimate, and with the particles 
of sulphur, cinnaber. Newton. 
SUBLIMATION, s. [sublimation, Fr.] A chemical 
operation which raises bodies in the vessel by the force 
of fire.-—Exaltation; elevation; act of heightening or im¬ 
proving. 
She turns 
Bodies to spirits, by sublimation strange. Davies. 
SUBLI'ME, adj. [sublimis, Latin.] High in place ; 
exalted aloft. 
They summ’d their pens, and soaring th’ air sublime 
With clang despis’d the ground. Milton. 
High in excellence; exalted by nature. 
Can it be, that souls sublime 
Return to visit our terrestrial clime ; 
And that the generous mind, releas’d by death. 
Can covet lazy limb ? Dry den. 
High in style or sentiment; lofty; grand.—Easy in stile 
thy work, in sense sublitne. Prior _Elevated by joy. 
Their hearts were jocund and sublime. 
Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine. 
Lofty of mien; elevated in manner. 
His fair large front and eye sublime declar’d 
Absolute rule. 
SUBLI'ME, s. The grand or lofty style. 
Longinus strengthens all his laws, 
And is himself the great sublime he draws. 
To SUBLI'ME, v. a. [sublimer, Fr. from the adjective.] 
To raise by a chemical fire. 
Study our manuscripts, those myriads 
Of letters, which have past’twixt thee and me. 
Thence write our annals, and in them lessons be 
To all, whom love’s subliming fire invades. Donne. 
To raise on high. 
Although thy trunk be neither large nor strong, 
Nor can thy head, not help’d, itself sublime, 
Yet, like a serpent, a tall tree can climb. Denham. 
To exalt; to heighten; to improve. 
Flowers, and then fruit, 
Man’s nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd 
To vital spirits aspire. Milton. 
The fancies of most are moved by the inward springs of 
the corporeal machine, which even in the most sublimed 
intellectuals is dangerously influential. Glanville. —Art 
being strengthened by the knowledge of things, may pass 
into nature by slow degrees, and so be sublimed into a pure 
genius, which is capable of distinguishing betwixt the beau¬ 
ties of nature and that which is low in her. Dry den. 
Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, 
And force that sun but on a part to shine; 
Which not alone the southern wit sublimes. 
But ripens spirits in cold northern climes. Pope. 
To SUBLI'ME, v. n. To rise in the chemical vessel by 
the force of fire. 
SUBLI'MELY, adv. Loftily; grandly. 
In English lays, and all sublimely great. 
Thy Homer charms with all his ancient heat. Parnel. 
SUBLIMENESS, s. [sublimitas, L at.] The same as 
sublimity; but unused. 
SUBLIMIFICA'TION, s. [sublimis and facio, Latin.] 
The act of making sublime. Unused. 
SUBLI'MITY, s. [sublimite, Fr., sublimitas, Latin.] 
Height of place; local elevation. Little used. —-Height of 
nature; excellence.—In respect of God’s incomprehensible 
sublimity and purity, this is also true, that God is neither a 
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