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mind nor a spirit like other spirits, nor a light such as can 
be discerned. Ralegh. —Loftiness of style or sentiment.— 
Milton’s distinguishing excellence lies in the sublimity of his 
thoughts. Addison. 
SUBLl'NGUAL, adj. [sublingual, French; sub and 
lingua, Lat.] Placed under the tongue, as the sublingual 
glands. 
SUBLITZ, a village of Prussian Saxony; 2 miles west of 
Torgau, near which was fought, on 3d November 1760, an 
obstinate and sanguinary battle between the Prussians and 
Austrians, commonly called the battle of Torgau. It ended 
to the advantage of the Prussians. See Torgau. 
SUBLU'NAR, or Sublunary, adj. [sublunaire, Fr., 
sub and Ian a, Lat.] Situated beneath the moon; earthly; 
terrestrial; of this world. 
Night measur’d, with her shadowy cone. 
Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton. 
SUB'LUNARY, s. Any worldly thing.—Whatsoever 
temporal felicity we apprehend, we cull out the pleasures, 
and overprize them :—And that these sublunaries have then- 
greatest freshness placed only in hope, it is a conviction un¬ 
deniable, [as] that, upon enjoyment, all our joys do vanish. 
Feltham. 
SU'BLUXATION, s. A partial luxation; a sprain. 
SU'BMARINE, adj. Lying under the sea.—Not only 
the herbaceous and woody submarine plants, but also the 
lithophyta, affect this manner of growing, as I observed in 
corals. Ray. 
To SUBME'RGE, v. a. [submerger, Fr., submergo, 
Lat.] To drown; to put under water. 
So half my Egypt were submerg'd and made 
A cistern for scal’d snakes. Shakspeare. 
To SUBME'RGE, v. n. To be under water; to lie 
under water; spoken of swallows.—Some say, swallows 
submerge in ponds. Gent. Mag. 
To SUBME'RSE, v. a. [sub?nersus, Lat.] To put 
under water. Unused. Scott. 
SUBMERSION, s. [submersion, Fr., from submersus, 
Latin.] The act of drowning; state of being drowned.— 
State of lying under water.—The submersion of swallows 
appears by no means ascertained. Trans/, of Buffon. 
To SUBMI'NISTER, or To Sueministrate, v. a. 
[subrninistro, Lat.] To supply; to afford. A word not 
much in use. —Nothing subministrafes apter matter to be 
converted into pestilent seminaries, than steams of nasty 
folks. Harvey. 
To SUBMI'NISTER, v. n. To subserve; to be useful 
to.—Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad 
masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. 
L'Estrange. 
SUBMi'NISTRANT, adj. [subministrans, Lat.] Sub¬ 
servient : serving in subornation.—For that which is most 
principal, and final, to be left undone for the attending of 
that which is subservient, and subministrant, seemeth to be 
against proportion of reason. Bacon. 
SUBMINISTRA'TION, s. Act of supplying.—Which 
[league] the electors have broken—by subministration of 
commodities to his army. Wotton. 
SUBMISS, adj. [from submissus, Lat.] Humble; 
submissive; obsequious. 
Nearer his presence, Adam, though not aw’d. 
Yet with submiss approach, and reverence meek. 
As to a superior nature, bowed low. Milton. 
SUBMISSION, [soubmission, Fr., from submissus, 
Lat.] Delivery of one to the power of another. 
Submission, Dauphin ! ’tis a mere French word. 
We English warriors wot not what it means. Shakspeare. 
Acknowledgment of inferiority or dependance; humble 
or suppliant behaviour. 
In all submission and humility, 
York doth present himself unto your highness. Shakspeare. 
Acknowledgment of a fault: confession of error.—Be not 
as extreme in submission as in offence. Shakspeare.— "Ob¬ 
sequiousness ; resignation; obedience. 
SUBMISSIVE, adj. [submissus, Lat.] Humble; tes¬ 
tifying submission or inferiority. 
Her at his feet submissive in distress 
He thus with peaceful words uprais’d. Milton. 
SUBMISSIVELY, adv. Humbly; with confession of 
inferiority. 
The goddess, 
Soft in her tone, submissively replies. Dryden. 
SUBMI'SSIVENESS, s. Humility; confession of fault, 
or inferiority. 
SUBMI'SSLY, adv. Humbly; with submission.—Hu¬ 
mility consists, not in wearing mean clothes, and going 
softly and submissly, but in mean opinion of thyself. Bp. 
Taylor. 
SUBMI'SSNESS, s. Humility ; lowliness of mind ; 
resignation ; obedience.—Whensoever she named God, 
though it were in common discourse, she would, for the 
most part, add the title of Maker; saying, God my Maker: 
and compose both her eyes and countenance to a submiss ness 
and reverence. Rawley. 
To SUBMI'T, v. a. [soumettre, Fr., submitto, Lat.] 
To let down; to sink. 
Sometimes the hill submits itself a while 
In small descents, which do its height beguile. 
And sometimes mounts, but so as billows play. 
Whose rise not hinders, but makes short our way. Dryden. 
To subject; to resign without resistance to authority._ 
Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 
Gen. xv i.—To leave to discretion ; to refer to judgment.— 
Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy 
burden, is submitted to the house. Swift. 
To SUBMI'T, v. n. To be subject; to acquiesce in the 
authority of another; to yield. 
To thy husband’s will 
Thine shall submit: he over thee shall rule. Milton. 
SUBMI'TTER, s. One who submits. 
SUBMU'LTIPLE, s. A submultiple number or quan¬ 
tity is that which is contained in another number, a certain 
number of times exactly : thus 3 is submultiple of 21. 
SUBNA'SCENT, adj. [subnascens, Lat.] Growing 
beneath something else. Mason. —There is nothing more 
prejudicial to subnascent young trees, than, when newly 
trimmed and pruned, to have their wound poisoned with 
continual dripping. Evelyn. 
SUBOBSCU'RELY, adv. Somewhat darkly.—Thebooke 
of Nature, where, though subobscurely and in shadows, 
thou, [God] hast expressed thine own image. Donne. 
SUBO'CTAVE, or Subo'gtuple, adj. [«/<$ and oc¬ 
tavos, Lat. and octuple.'] Containing one part of eight. 
SUBO'RDINACY, or Subordinancy, s. The state of 
being subject.—Pursuing the imagination through all its 
extravagancies, is no improper method of correcting and 
bringing it to act in subordinacy to reason. Spectator .— 
Series of subordination.—The subordinancy of the govern¬ 
ment changing hands so often, makes an unsteadiness in 
the pursuit of the public interests. Temple. 
SUBORDINATE, adj. [sub and ordinatus, Lat.] In¬ 
ferior in order, in nature, in dignity or power.—It was sub¬ 
ordinate, not enslaved to the understanding : not as a ser¬ 
vant to a master, but as a queen to her king, who acknow¬ 
ledges a subjection, yet retains a majesty. South. —De¬ 
scending in a regular series.—The two armies were asigned 
to the leading of two generals, rather courtiers than martial 
men, yet assisted with subordinate commanders of great 
experience. Bacon. 
SUBORDINATE, s. An inferior person. 
His next subordinate 
Awakening, thus to him in secret spake. Milton. 
To SUBORDINATE, v. a. [sub and ordino, Lat.] To 
range under another; to make subordinate. Not in use. 
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