English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Subordinated (imp. & p. p.)

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Subordinating (p. pr. & vb. n.)

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Subordination (n.)

The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting.

Subordination (n.)

The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.

Subordination (n.)

Place of inferior rank.

Subordinative (a.)

Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.

Suborn (v. t.)

To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

Suborn (v. t.)

To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.

Subornation (n.)

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

Subornation (n.)

The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion.

Suborned (imp. & p. p.)

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Suborner (n.)

One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

Suborning (p. pr. & vb. n.)

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Suboval (a.)

Somewhat oval; nearly oval.

Subovate (a.)

Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

Subovated (a.)

Subovate.

Suboxide (n.)

An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.

Subpeduncular (a.)

Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.

Subpedunculate (a.)

Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle.

Subpellucid (a.)

Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.