a animal body, not sufficiently concocted by cir. vert it into blood, which is effected by the culation, and is commonly subacid in all plants. lungs. drbuonot. Arbuthnot. SUBCONSTELLA'TION.n. s. (sub and conSUBA'CRID. adj. (sub and acrid. ] Sharp stellation.) A subordinate or secondary and pungent in a small degree. constellation. The green choler of a cow tasted sweet, bitter, As to the picture of the seven stars, if thereby subacrid, or a little pungent, and turned syrup of be meant the Pleiades, or subconst. llation upon violets green. Floyer. the back of Taurus, with what congruity they To Suba'ct. v. a. [subactus, Latin.) To are described, in a clear night an ordinary eye Brosun. reduce ; to subdue. may discover. Tangible bodies have no pleasure in the con SUBCONTRARY. adj. (sz:b and contrary.) sort of air, but endeavour to subact it into a more Contrary in an inferiour degree. dense body. Bacon. If two particular propositions differ in qua. SUBA'CTION. x. s. [subactus, Lat.) The lity, they are subcontraries; as, some vine is a act of reducing to any state, as of mix tree; some vine is not a tree. These may be both true together, but they can never be both ing two bodies completely, or beating false. Watts. any thing to a very small powder. SUBCONTRA'CTED. part. adj. [sub and There are of concoction two periods: the one contracted.] Contracted after a former assimilation, or absolute conversion and susta action; the other maturation : whereof the for- contract. mer is most conspicuous in living creatures, in Your claim, which there is an absolute conversion and as I bar it in the interest of my wife; similation of the nourishnient into the body. 'T is she is subcontracted to this lord, Bacon. And I her husband contradict your banes. Sbak. SUBAʼLTERN. adj. [subalterne, French.] SUECUTANEOUS. adj. [sub and cutane. Inferiour; subordinate ; that which in ous.] Lying under the skin. different respects is both superiour and SUBDE'ACON.. s. (subdiaconus, Latin.] inferiour. It is used in the army of all In the Romish church they have a subdeacor, who is the deacon's servant. officers below a captain. Love's subalterrs, a duteous band, SUBDEPAN.n. s. [subdecanus, Latin.] 1ne Like warchinen round their chief appear; vicegerent of a dean. Each had his lanthorn in his hand, Whenever the dean and chapter confirm any And Venus, mask'd, brought up the rear. Prior. act, that such confirmation may be vaiid, thie There had like to have been a duel between dean must join in person, and not in the person two subalterns, upon a dispute which should be of a deputy or subdian only. governor of Portsmouth. Addisont . SUBDE'CUPLE. adj. [sub and deurplus, One, while a subaltern officer, was every day Latin.] Containing one part of ten. complaining against the pride of colonels to- SUBUERISO'R tous.adi. [suband derisor.) wards their officers; yet, after he received his commission for a regiment, he confessed the Scofting or ridiculing with tenderness spirit of colonelship was coming fast upon him, and delicacy. Not used. and it daily increased to his death. Savijt. This sabulerisorios mirth is far from giving any This sort of universal ideas, which may either oftence to 13: it is rather a picasant condment of our convention. be considered as a genus or species, is called 11. subaltern. Waits. SUBDITID005. adi. (suhdiitius, Lat.] SUBALTE'RNATE. adj. (subalternus, Lat.) Put secritly in the place of something Succeeding by turns. Dict. else'. SUBASTRI'NGENT. adj. (1:16 and astrin To SUBDIVI.'RSIFY. 1. V. a. (sub and ligur. gent.] Astringent in a small degree. sity.) To diversify again vihat is already SU EB E'ADLE, 1. s. [sub and beudle.] An diversitied. under beadle. The same wool one man felts into a hat, anThey ought not to execute those precepts by other weaves it into cloth, another into arris; simple messengers, or subbeatles, but in their and these variously subdiversified according to the own persons. Hale. fancy of the artificer. Ayliffe. SUBCELE'STIAI. adj. (sub and celestial.] To SUBDIVI'DE. ?'. a. (subdiviser, Fr. sub Placed beneath the heavens. and dizide.] To divide a part into yet more parts. The most refined glories of subcelestial excellencies are but more faint resemblances of these. In the rise of eight, in tones, there be o Glanville. beemols, or half notes; so as if you divide the SUBCHA'NTER. K. s. sub and chanter; tones equally, the eight is but seven whole and equal notes; and if you subdivide that into hali succentor, Latin.] The deputy of the notes, as in the stops of a luce, it makech the precentor in a cathedral. number thirteen. SUBCLA'Vian. adj. (sub and clavus, When Brutus and Cassius were overthroun, Latin.] soon after Antonius and Octavianus brake and subdivided. Bacon, Subclavian is applied to any thing under the armpit or shoulder, whether artery, nerve, vein, The glad father glories in his child, When he can subdivide a fraction. Roscommon. or muscle. Quincy. The liver, though seated on the right side, When the progenies of Cham and Japher yet, by the subclavian division, doth equi swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were distantly communicate its activity unto either subdivided into many others, in time their deBrown. scendants lost the primitive rites of divine The chyle first mixeth with the blood in the worship, recaining only the notion of one deity. subclivian vein, and enters with it into the Dryden. heart, where it is very imperfectly mixed, there SUBDIVISION.". s. [subdivision, French; being no mechanism nor fermentation to con- from subdividc.) a a a Bacan. arm. Philips. 1. The act of subdividing. quest. Not used, nor worthy to be When any of the parts of any idea are farther used. divided, in order to a clear explication of the I have seen thee, whole, this is called a subdivision; as when a As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed, Year is divided into months, each month into Bravely despising forfeits and subduements. Stat. days, and each day into hours, which may be SUBDUCER: . s. [from subdue.] Çonfarther subdivided into minutes and seconds. Watts. querour; tamer. Great god of might, that reigneth in the mind, 2. The parts distinguished by a second And all the body to thy hest dost frame; division. Victor of gods, subduer of mankind, How can we see such a multitude of souls That dost the lion and fell cyger tame, cast under so many subdivisions of miscry, with- Who can express the glory of thy might? out reilecting on the absurdity of a government Spenses. that sacrifices the happiness of so many reason Their curious eye In the uccimal table the subdivisions of the And corresponding features fair. debutbrot. SU'BDOLOUS. adj. (subdolus, Latin.] Cun SU'BDUPLE. ning ; subtle ; sly. adj. [subduple, Pr. SUBøU'PLICATE.) sub and duplus, Lat.) Containing one part of two. As one of these under pulleys doth abate half 1. To withdraw; to take away. of that heaviness which the weight hath in itself, Or nature said in me, and leti some part and cause the power to be in a subduple proporNor proof enough such object to sustain; tion unto it, so two of them do abate hait of that Or trom my side subducting, took perhaps which remains, and cause a subquadruple pro More than enough. Milton. portion, and three a subsextuple. Wilkins. 2. To substract by arithmetical operation. 'The motion, generated by the forces in the Take the other operation of arithmetick, sub- whole passage of the body or thing through that duction : if out of that supposed intinite multi- space, shall be in a subd plicate proportion of the tude of intecedent generations we should sub- forces. Norton duce ten, the residuc must be less by ten than it SUBJA'CENT.adj. [subjacens, Lat.] Lying was before, and yet still the quotient must be under. infinite. Hale. The superficial parts of mountains are washed CUBDU'CTION. n. s. [from subduct.] away by rains, and burne down upon the subja. 1. The act of taking away. cent plains. Woodward. Possibly the Divine benéticence subducting 10 SUBJE'CT. v. a. (subjectus, Lat.] that influence which it communicated from the 1. To put under. cime of their first creation, they were kept in a The angel state of immortality till that moment of the sub Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast. duction. Hale. Milton. 2. Arithmetical substraction. The medal bears each form and name : Suppose we take the other operation of In one short view, subjected to our cye, arithmetick, subduction : if out of that intinite Gods, emp’rors, heroes, suges, beauties, lie. Popes multitude of antecedent generacions we should 2. To reduce to subimis ion; to make subduce ten, the residue must be less by ten than it was before that subduction, and yet still the subordinate ; to make submissive. quotient be intinite. Hale. Think not, young warriors, your diminish'd TO SUBDU'E. v. a. [from subdo, or sub- Shall lose of lustre, by subjecting rage jugo, Latin.) To the cool dictates of experienc'd age. Dryto 1. To crush ; to oppress; to sink; to 3. To enslave; to make obnoxious. Overpower. I live on bread like you, feel'want like you, Nothing could have subdued nature Taste grief, need friends, like you: subjected Tu such a lowness, but his unkind daughters. Shakspeare, How can you say to me I am a king? Sbaksp. Them that rose up against me hast thou suba I see thee, in that fatal hour, dued under me. 2 Samuel. Subjected to the victor's cruel pow'r, Led hence a slave. Milton. The blind will always be led by those that see, 2. To conquer; to reduce under a new or fall into the ditch; and he is the most subo dominiin. jected, the most enslaved, who is so in his under. Be fruitful, and replenish the earth, and sub- standing. Locke due it. Genesis. 4. To expose ; to make liable. Augustus Cæsar subdued Egypt to the Roman If the vessels yield, it subjects the person to all empire. Peacbag. the inconveniences of an erroneous circulation, To overcome in battle, and subdue Arbuthnof. Nations, and bring home spoils. Milton. 5. To submit ; to make accountable. The Romans made those times the standard God is not bound to subject his ways of operaof their wit, when they subdued the world. tion to the scrutiny of our thoughts, and confine Spratt. himself to do nothing but what we must com3. To tame; to subact; to break. prehend. Locke. He subjected to man's service angel wings. Milton SUBDUEDEX T. id. s. ltiom subdiue.] Con- SU'BJECT, adj. [subiectus, Latin.) name Dryden. ment. 1. Placed or situate under. a verb is called by grammarians the subTh' eastern tower, ject of the verb. Clarke. Whose height commands, as subject, all the vale SÚ BJECTION. 1. s. [from subject.) To see the fight. Sbakspeare. 1. The act of subduing. 2. Living under the dominion of another. After the conquest of the kingdom, and subEsau was never subject to Jacob, but founded jection of the rebels, enquiry tras made who there a distinct peopie and government, and was him were, thai, tighting against the king, had sared self prince over them. Locke. Hal. Christ, since his incarnation, has been subject 2. (sujetiion, French.) The state of being to the Father; and will be so also in his huinan capacity, after he has delivered up his mediato- under government. rial kingdom. Waterland. Because the subjection of the body to the will 3. Exposed ; liable ; obnoxious. is by natural necessity, the subjection of the will Most subject is the fattest soil to seeds; unto God voluntary, we thereiüre stand in need And he the noble image or my youth of direction after what sort our wilis and desires Hooker. may be rightly conformed in his. Sbakspears. How hard it is now for him to frame himself And when fate summons monarchs must obey. to subjection, that, having once set before his eyes Dryden. the hope of a kingdom, hatii found encourage Spenser. 4. Being that on which any action operates, Both in subjection now to sensual appetite. whether intellectual or material. Miller, I enter into the subject matter of my discourse. SUBJECTIVE. ad;. [from subject.] Re: Dryden. lating not to the object, but the subject. SU'BJECT. n. s. [sujet, French ] Certainty, according to the schools, is distinI. One who lives under the dominion of guished into objective and subjective: ubjecte another : opposed to governour. ive is when the proposition is certainly true Every subject's duty is the king's, in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of But every subject's soul is his own. Sbakspeare. the truth of it. Wutii. Never subject longd to be a king, SUBINGRE'SSION. n. s. [sub and ingressus, As I do long and wish to be a subject. Shaksp. Latin.] Secret entrance. Those I call subjects which are governed by the The pressure of the ambient air is strengthened ordinary laws and magistrates of the sovereign. upon the accession of the air sucked out; which Davies. foreeth the neighbouring air to a violent sutice We must understand and confess a king to be gression of its parts. Beyk. a father, a subject to be a son; and therefore ho To SlBjOi':. v. a. (sub and joindre, Fr. nour to be by nature most due from the natural subject to the natural king. Holiday. subjungo, Latin.] To add at the end; to The subject must obey his prince, because add aiterward. God commands it, human laws require it. Szvift. He makes an excuse from ignorance, the only Were subjects so but only by their choice, thing that could take away trie fach; namely, And not from birth did forc'd doininion take, that he knew not that he was the high-priest, Our prince alone would have the publick voice. and subjoins a reason. Sosté. Dryden. SUBILA NEOU's, adj. [subitaneus, I.at.) Heroick kings, whose high perfections have made them awřul to their subjects, can struggle TO SUBJUGATE. 7. a. [subjuguer, Fr. Sudden ; hasty. with and subdue the corruption of the times. Davenant. subjugo, Lat.) To conquer; to subdue; 2. That on which any operation, either to bring und: r dominion by force. mental or material, is performed. O fav'rite virgin, thai hast warm'd the breast Now spurs the lated traveller apace Whose sov'reign dictaies sirbjugate the eas!! Prior. To gain the timely inn, and near approaches The subject of our watch. Sbakspeare. He subjugated a king, and called him his vassal. Baker. This subject for heroick song pleased me. Milton. SUBJUGA’TION. n. s. [from subjugatr.] Here he would have us fix our thoughts; nor The act of subduing. are they too dry a subject for our contemplation. This was the condition of the learned part of Decay of Picty. the world, atier their subjugation by the Turks. I will not venture on so nice a subject with niy Hale. severe style. More. SUBJUNCTION. n. s. [from subjungo, Make choice of a subject beautiful and noble, Latin.] The state of being subjoined; which, being capable of all the graces that co the act of subjoining. lours and elegance of design can give, shall af. The verb undergoes in Greek a different form. ford a perfect art, an ample field of matter where ation ; and in dependence upon, or sit;wantina to expatiate. Dryden. Clarke. SUBJU'NCTIVE, adj. [subjunctivus, Lat. ing which any thing is atiirmed or denied. Watts. subjonctif, French.] My real design is, that of publishing your 1. Subjoined to something else. praises to the world; not upon the subject of 2. In grammar. Swift. The verb undergoes a different formation, to 3. That in which any thing inheres or signify the saine intentions as the indicative, exists. yet not absolutely, but relatively to some wener Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it ap- Clarke. pears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns, children, wmen, old folks, sick SUB LAPS A'RDAN.Iadi. (sub and lapses, folks. Bacon. SCBL A'PSARY. S Latin.] Done alier 4. (In grammar.] The nominative case to the fall of man, your noble birth. The decree of reprobation, according to the Shall he pretend to religious attainments, who sub'apsarian doctrine, being nothing else but a is defective and short in moral, which are but mere preterition or non-election of some per the rudiments and first draught of religion; as sons whom God left as he found, involved in religion is the perfection, retinement, and subthe guilt of the first Adam's transgression, with- limation, of morality? South out any actual personal sin of their own, when SUBLIME. adj. [sublimis, Latin.] he withdrew some others as guilty as they. Hammond. 1. High in place ; exalted aloft. SUBLA'TION. N. s. [sublatio, Latin.] The They sum’d their pens, and soaring th' air act of taking away. sublime SUBLEVATION, n. s. [sublevo, Latin.] With clang despis’d the ground. Miltors. Sublime on these a tow'r of steel is rear'd, The act of raising on high. And dire Tisiphone there keeps the ward. SUBLIMABLE, adj. (from sublime.] Pos Dryder. sible to be sublimed. 2. High in excellence ; exalted by nature. SUBLIMABLENESS. n. s. [from sublima- My earthly strained to the height bl.] Quality of admitting sublimation. In that celestial colloquy sublime. Miltor. He obtained another concrete as to taste and Can it be, that souls sublime smell, and easy sublimableness, as common salt Return to visit our terrestrial clime? armoniack. Boyle. And that the gen'rous mind, releas'd by death, To Su'BLIMATE. v. a. [from sublime.] Can covet lazy limbs? Dryden. 1. To raise by the force of chymical fire. 3. High in style or sentiment; lofty; 2. To exalt; to heighten; to elevate. grand. And as his actions rose, so raise they still their Easy in stile thy work, in sense sublim.. vein Prior. In words, whose weight best suits a sublimated 4. Elevated by joy. strain. Drayton. All yet left of that revolted rout, Not only the gross and illiterate souls, but Heav'n-fall'n, in station stood or just array, the most aerial and sublimated, are rather the Sublime with expectation. Milton, more proper fuel for an immaterial fire. Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Decay of Piety. Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine. Milton, The precepts of christianity are so excellent 5. Lofty of mien; elevated in manner. and refined, and so apt to cleanse and sublimate He was sublime, and almost tumorous, in his the more gross and corrupt, as shews flesh and looks and gestures. Wotton. blood never revealed it. Decay of Fiety. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd SU'BLIMATE, n. s. [from sublime.] Absolute rule. Milton. 1. Any thing raised by fire in the retort. SUBLI'ME. n. s. The grand or lofty style. Enquire the manner of subliming, and what The sublime is a gallicism, but now nametals endure subliming, and what body the sublimate makes. Bacon. turalized. 2. Quicksilver raised in the retort. Longinus strengthens all his laws, SU'BLIMATE, adj. Raised by fire in the And is himself the great sublime he draws. Pope. The sublime rises from the nobleness of vessel, thoughts, the magnificence of the words, or the The particles of mercury, uniting with the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase; the acid particles of spirit of salt, compuse mercury perfect sublime arises from all three together. sublimate; and, with the particles of sulphur, Addison. cinnabar. Newton. To SUBLIME. v. a. (sublimer, French; SULIMA’TION. n. s. [sublimation, Fr. from the adjective.] from sublimate.] 1. To raise by a chymical fire. 1. A chymical operation which raises bo. Study our manuscripts, those myriads dies in the vessel by the force of fire. Of letters, which have past 'twixt thee and me; Sublimation differs very little from distillation, Thence write our annals, and in them lessons be excepting that in distillation only the fuid parts To all, whom love's swbliming fire invades. of bodies are raised, but in this the solid and Donne. dry; and that the matter to be distilled may be 2. To raise on high. either solid or fluid, but sublimation is only con Although thy trunk be neither large nor cerned about solid substances. There is also an strong, other difference, narnely, that rarefaction, which Nor can thy head, not help'd, itself sublime, is of very great use in distillation, has hardly any Yet, like a serpent, a tall tree can climb. room in sublimation; for che substances which Denbam. are to be sublimed, being solid, are incapable of 3. To exalt; to heighten; to improve. raretaction; and so it is only impulse that can Flow'rs, and then fruit, raise them. Quincy. Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, Separation is wrought by weight, as in the To vital spirits aspire. Milton. settlement of liquors, by heat, by precipitation, The fancies of most are moved by the inward or sutlimation; that is, a calling of the several springs of the corporeal machine, which, even ia parts up or down, which is a kind of attraction. the most sublimed intellectuals, is dangerously Bacun. influential. Glanville. Since oil of sulphur per campanam is of the Art, being strengthened by the knowledge of same nature with oil of vitriol, may it not be in things, may pass into nature by slow degrees, ferred that sulphur is a mixture of volatile and and so be sublimed into a pure genius, which is fixed parts, so strongly cohering by attraction, as capable of distinguishing betwixt the beauties of to ascend together by sublimation? Noluton. nature and that which is low in her. Dryden. 1. Exaltation ; elevation ; act of heighten- Meanly they seek the blessing to confiné, ing or improving. And force that sun but on a part to shine; Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, Bodies to spirits, by subiimation strange. Davies. But ripens spirits in cold northern climes. Pope stro, Latin.] use. of nasty folks. TO SUBLI'ME. v. n. To rise in the chymi- marine plants, but also the lithophyta, affect cal vessel by the force of fire. this manner of growing, as I observed in corals. Kas. The particles of sal ammoniack in sublimation carry up the particles of antimony, which will To SUBME’RGE. v. a. [submerger, Fr. pot sublime alone. Newton, submergo, Latin.) To drown; to put This salt is tixed in a gentle fire, and sublimes under water. in a great one. Arbuthnot. So half my Egypt was submerg'd, and made SUBLIMELY.adv. [from sublime. ] Lofti- A cistern for scald snakes. Sbakspearls ly : grandly. SUBME'RSION.n. s. submersion, French; 'In English lays, and all sublimely great, from submersus, Latin.] The act of Thy Homer charms with all his ancient heat. drowning; state of being drowned. Parnell. The great Atlantick island is mentioned in Fustian's so sublimely bad; Plato's I 'imæus, almost contiguous to the west It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Pope. ern parts of Spain and Africa, yet wholly swalSUBLIMENESS. n. s. [sublimitas, Lat.) lowed up by that ocean; which, if true, might The same as sublimity. afford a passage from Africa to America by land Hale. SUBLI'MITY. n. s. [from sublime ; sub before that submersion. limité, French; sublimita!, Latin.) TO SUBMI'NISTER. v. a. [submini 1. Height of place ; local elevation. TO SUBMINISTRATE, 2. Height of nature ; excellence. To supply ; to afford. Not much in As religion looketh upon him who in majesty and power is infinite, as we ought we account Some things have been discovered, not only by not of it, unless we esteem it even according to the industry of mankind, but even the inferior that very height of excellency which our hearts animals have subministered unto man the intenconceive, when divine sublimity itself is rightly tion of many things, natural, artificial, and meconsidered. Hooker. Hale. In respect of God's incomprehensible sublimity Nothing subministrates apter matter to be and purity, this is also true, that God is neither converted into pestilent seminaries, than steams a mind nor a spirit like other spirits, nor a light Harves. such as can be discerned. Raleigh. T. SUBMI'NISTER. V. n. To subserve; 3. Loftiness of style or sentiment. to be useful to. Milton's distinguishing excellence lies in the Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, sublimity of his thoughts, in the greatness of but bad masters, and subminister to the best and which he triumphs over all the poets, modern worst purposes. L'Estrange and ancient, Homer only excepted. Addison. SUBLINGUAL. adj. [sublingual, Fr ch; Susmi'ss. adj. [from submissus, Latin.] sub and lingua, Lat.] Placed under the Humble; submissive ; obsequious. tongue. King James, mollified by the bishop's submiss Those subliming humours should be inter- and eloquent letters, wrote back, that though he cepted, before they mount to the head, by sub- were in part moved by his letters, vet he should lingual pills. Harvey. Bacom. SUBLU'NAR. adj. [sublunaire, French; Nearer his presence, Adam, though not aw'd, SU'BLUNARY.S sub and luna, Latin.] Yet with submiss approach, and reverence meek, Situate beneath the moon; earthly; ter- As to a superior nature, bowed low. Milten. restrial ; of this world. Rejoicing, but with awe, In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss: he rear'd me. Milton, Whose soulis sense, cannot admit Of absence, 'cause it cannot remove SUBMISSION. 11. s. (soumission, French ; The thing which elemented it. Donne. from submissus, Latin.] Night measur’d, vith her shadowy cone, 1. Delivery of himself to the power of an. Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Miit. other. Through seas of knowledge we our course Submission, dauphin! 't is a mere French advance, word; Discov'ring still new worlds of ignorance ; We English 'warriors wot not what it means. And these discov'ries make us all confess Shakspeare That sublunary science is but guess. Denbam. 2. Acknowledgment of infcriority or deThe calescial bodies above the moon, being pot subject to chance, remain in perpetual or pendance; humble or suppliant beder, while all things sublunary are subject to haviour. change. Dryden. In all submission and humility York doth present himseif unto your highness. Great prince, by that submission you'll gain To pick up sublunary ladies. Swift. Than e'er your haughty courage won before. Where in a box the whole creation lies; Halifax. She sees the planets in their turns advance, 3. Acknowledgment of a fault; confession And scorns, Poitier, this sublunary dance. Young. of errour. SU'BMARINE. adj. (sub and mare, Lat.) Be not as extreme in submission, as in offence. Lying or acting under the sea. Siakspeare This contrivance may seem difficult, because 4. Obsequiousness; resignation ; obedithese submarine navigators will want winds and ence. rides for motion, and the sight of the heavens No duty in religion is more justly required by for direction. Wilkins. God Almighty, than a perfect submission to his Not only the herbaceous and woody sub- will in all things. Tomato Sbakspeart: more a |