1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding.
South. Subordinate
(Sub*or"di*nate), n. One who stands in order or rank below another; — distinguished from
a principal. Milton.
Subordinate
(Sub*or"di*nate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subordinated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Subordinating.]
1. To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate
one creature to another.
2. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
— Sub*or"di*nate*ly, adv. — Sub*or"di*nate*ness, n.
Subordination
(Sub*or`di*na"tion) n. [Cf. F. subordination.]
1. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.
2. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.
Natural creature having a local subordination.
Holyday. 3. Place of inferior rank.
Persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors.
Swift. Subordinative
(Sub*or"di*na*tive) a. Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce
a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.
Suborn
(Sub*orn") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suborned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Suborning.] [F. suborner, L. subornare;
sub under, secretly + ornare to furnish, provide, equip, adorn. See Ornament.]
1. (Law) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
Sir W. O. Russell.
2. To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
Thou art suborned against his honor.
Shak.
Those who by despair suborn their death.
Dryden. Subornation
(Sub`or*na"tion) n. [F. subornation.]
1. (Law) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes
perjury. Blackstone.
