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I hate and highly scorn that kestrel brood 
Of bastard scholars, that subordinate 
The precious choice induements of the mind 
wealth or worldly good. More. 
SUBO'RDINATELY, adv. In a series regularly de¬ 
scending. 
SUBORDINATION, s. [subordination, Fr.] The state 
of being inferior to another. 
Nor can a council national decide. 
But with subordination to her guide. Dri/den. 
A series regularly descending.—The natural creatures 
having a local subordination, the rational having a political, 
and sometimes a sacred, Holy day. —Place of rank.—If 
we would suppose a ministry, where every single person was 
of distinguished piety, and all great officers of state and law 
diligent in chusing persons, who in their several subordina¬ 
tions would be obliged to follow the examples of their 
superiors, the empire of irreligion would be soon destroyed. 
Swift. 
to SUBO'RN, v. a. [suborner , Fr., suborno, Lat.] To 
procure privately; to procure by secret collusion. 
Fond wretch! thou know’st not what thou speak’st. 
Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour 
In hateful practice. Shakspeare. 
To procure by indirect means. 
Behold 
Those who by lingering sickness lose their breath, 
And those who by despair suborn their death. Dry den. 
SUBORNATION, s. [subornation, Fr.] The crime 
of procuring any to do a bad action. 
You set the crown 
Upon the head of this forgetful man. 
And for his sake wear the detested blot 
Of murd’rous subornation. Shalcspeare. 
SUBO'RNER, s. [suborneur, Fr.] One that procures 
a bad action to be done.—You are to enquire of wilful and 
corrupt perjury ; — as well of the actors, as of the procurers 
and suborners of it. Bacon. 
SUBPCE'NA, s. [sub and poena, Lat.] A writ com¬ 
manding attendance in a court under a penalty. 
Your meetings, call’d the ball; to which appear, 
As to the court of pleasure, all your gallants 
And ladies, thither bound by a subpoena 
Of Venus’ and small Cupid’s high displeasure. Shirley. 
To SUBPCE'NA, v. a. To serve with a subpoena.—I 
was lately subpoenaed by a card to a general assembly. Ld. 
ester field. 
SUBPRI'OR, s. The vicegerent of a prior.—The bishop 
ordered that the prior for the time being should pay £ 100 a 
year for seven years ensuing; and the subprior and convent 
100 marks, in like manner, for this service. Lowth. 
SUBQUA'DRUPLE, adj. Containing one part of four. 
SUBQUl'NTUPLE, adj. Containing one part of five. 
SUBRE'CTQR, s. The rector’s vicegerent.—He was 
chosen subrector of the college. Walton. 
SUBRE'PTION, s. [subreption, Fr., subreptus, Lat.] 
The act of obtaining a favour by surprise or unfair representa¬ 
tion. Diet. —Lest there should be any subreption in this 
sacred business, it is ordered, that these ordinations should 
be no other than solemn both in respect of time and place. 
Bp. Hall. 
SUBREPTITIOUS, adj. [surreptice, Fr., surreptitius, 
Lat.] Falsely crept in; fraudulently foisted; fraudulently 
obtained. 
SUBREPTI'TIOUSLY, adv. By falsehood ; by stealth. 
SUBRE'PTIVE, adj. [subreptif, Fr.] Subreptitious. 
Not in use. 
To SU'BROGATE, v. a. [subrogo, Lat.] To put in 
the place of another. A sumptuary law against excess of 
apparel was repealed; and a new one, a little more decent, 
subrogated. Ld. Herbert. 
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SUBROY, a town of Hindostan, province of Cutch, situ¬ 
ated on the road from Luckput Bunder to Mandavie. It is 
defended by a citadel, and is a populous and flourishing place. 
Lat. not ascertained. 
SUB-SALTS, in Chemistry, salts with less acid than is 
sufficient to neutralize their bases. 
To SUBSCRI'BE, v. a. [souscrire, Fr., subscribo, Lat.] 
To give consent to, by underwriting the name.—The reader 
sees the names of those persons by whom this letter is sub¬ 
scribed. Addison. —To attest by writing the name.— 
Their particular testimony ought to be better credited, than 
some other subscribed with an hundred hands. Whitgift. 
—To submit. Not used. 
The king gone to night! subscrib'd his pow’r! 
Confin’d to exhibition ! all is gone. Shakspeare. 
To SUBSCRI'BE, v. n. To give consent. 
Advise thee what is to be done, 
And we will all subscribe to thy advice. Shakspeare. 
To promise a stipulated sum for the promotion of any 
undertaking. 
SUBSCRI'BER, s. [from subscriptio, Lat.] One who 
subscribes, or contributes.—Let a pamphlet come out upon 
a demand in a proper juncture, every one of the party who 
can spare a shilling shall be a subscriber. Swift. 
SU'BSCRIPT, s. [subscription, Lat.] Any thing un¬ 
derwritten.—Be they postscripts or subscripts, your trans¬ 
lators neither made them, nor recommended them, for Scrip¬ 
ture. Bentley. 
SUBSCRIPTION, [from subscriptio, Lat.] Any thing 
underwritten.—The man asked. Are ye Christians ? We 
answered we were ; fearing the less because of the cross we 
had seen in the subscription. Bacon. —Consent or attesta¬ 
tion given by underwriting the name.—The act or state of 
contributing to any undertaking. 
The work he ply’d ; 
Stocks and subscriptions pour on ev’ry side. Pope. 
Submission ; obedience. Not in use. 
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; 
I never gave you kingdom, call’d you children, 
You owe me no subscription. Shakspeare. 
SUBSE'CTION, s. [sub and scctio, Lat.] A subdivision 
of a larger section into a lesser ; a section of a section. 
SUBSE'CUTIVE, adj. [subsecutif, Fr. from subsequor, 
Lat.] Following in train. 
SUBSE'PTUPLE, adj. [sub and septuplus, Lat.] Con¬ 
taining one of seven parts. 
SUBSEQUENCE, or Su'bsequency, s. [from sub¬ 
sequor, Lat.] The state of following; not precedence.— 
By this faculty vve can take notice of the order of pre¬ 
cedence and subsequence in which they are past. Grew. 
SUBSEQUENT, adj. [subsequent, Fr., subsequens, 
Lat. This word is pronounced long in the second syl¬ 
lable by Shakspeare.] Following in train; not preceding. 
In such indexes, although small pricks 
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen 
The baby figure of the giant mass 
Of things to come at large. Shakspeare. 
Why does each consenting sign 
With prudent harmony combine 
In turns to move, and subsequent appear 
To gird the globe and regulate the year ? Prior. 
SUBSEQUENTLY, adv. Not so as to go before ; so as 
to follow in train. 
To SUBSE'RVE, v. a. [subservio, Lat.] To serve in 
subordination ; to serve instrumentally.—The memory hath 
no special part of the brain devoted to its own service, but 
uses all those parts which subserve our sensations, as well 
as our thinking powers. Walsh. 
SUBSE'RVIENCE, or Subse'rviency, s. Instrumental 
fitness, use, or operation—There is an immediate and agile 
subservience of the spirits to the empire of the soul. Hale. 
SUBSE'RVIENT, adj. [subserviens, Lat.] Subordinate; 
instrumentally 
