Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SUB-DUC-ED – SUB-IN-DI-CA'TION
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SUB-DUC-ED, pp.
Withdrawn; taken away.
SUB-DUC-ING, ppr.
Withdrawing; subtracting by arithmetical operation.
SUB-DUC'TION, n.
- The act of taking away or withdrawing. – Hale.
- Arithmetical subtraction. – Hale.
SUB-DUE, v.t. [subdu'; This is a compound word, and the latter component part is contracted from some word in Class Db or Dg.]
- To conquer by force or the exertion of superior power and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion. Thus Cesar subdued the Gauls; Augustus subdued Egypt; the English subdued Canada. Subduing implies conquest or vanquishing, but it implies also more permanence of subjection to the conquering power, than either these words. I will subdue all thine enemies. – 1 Chron. xvii.
- To oppress; to crush; to sink; to overpower so as to disable from further resistance. Nothing could have subdu'd nature / To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters. – Shak. If aught were worthy to subdue / The soul of man. – Milton.
- To tame; to break by conquering a refractory temper or evil passions; to render submissive; as, to subdue a stubborn child.
- To conquer; to reduce to mildness; as, to subdue the temper or passions.
- To overcome by persuasion or other mild means; as, to subdue opposition by argument or entreaties.
- To overcome; to conquer; to captivate; as by charms.
- To soften; to melt; to reduce to tenderness; as, to subdue ferocity by tears.
- To overcome; to overpower and destroy the force of; as medicines subdue a fever.
- To make mellow; to break; as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.
SUB-DUED, pp.
Conquered and reduced to subjection; oppressed; crushed; tamed; softened.
SUB-DUE-MENT, n.
Conquest. – Shak.
SUB-DU'ER, n.
- One who conquers and brings into subjection; a tamer. – Spenser.
- That which subdues or destroys the force of. – Arbuthnot.
SUB-DU'ING, ppr.
Vanquishing and reducing to subjection; crushing; destroying the power of resistance; softening.
SUB'DU-PLE, a. [L. sub and duplus, double.]
Containing one part of two. – Wilkins.
SUB-DU'PLI-CATE, a. [sub and duplicate.]
Having the ratio of the square roots. – Cyc.
SUB-E'QUAL, a. [sub and equal.]
Nearly equal. – Martyn.
SU'BER-ATE, n. [L. suber, cork.]
A salt formed by the suberic acid in combination with a base. – Chimistry.
SU'BER-IC, a.
Pertaining to cork, or extracted from it; as, suberic acid. – Chimistry.
SU'BE-RIN, n. [L. suber, the cork tree.]
The substance called cork, in a state of purity. It is supposed to be a peculiar vegetable proximate principle. Cork is the epidermis of the trunk and branches of the Quercus Suber, the cork tree, of the south of Europe.
SUB'ER-OSE, a. [L. sub and erosus, gnawed.]
In botany, having the appearance of being gnawed; appearing as if a little eaten or gnawed. – Martyn.
SUB'ER-OUS, a. [from L. suber, cork.]
Corky; soft and elastic.
SUB-FUSC', a. [L. subfuscus; sub and fuscus.]
Duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny. – Tatler.
SUB-GE'NUS, n.
A subordinate genus.
SUB-GLOB'U-LAR, a.
Having a form approaching to globular. – Say.
SUB-GLU-MA'CEOUS, a.
Somewhat glumaceous. – Lindley.
SUB-GRAN'U-LAR, a.
Somewhat granular.
SUB-HAS-TA'TION, n. [L. sub hasta, under the spear.]
A public sale or auction, so called from the Roman practice. – Burnet.
Applied to rocks containing disseminated hornblend. – Percival's Geol.
A compound of sulphareted hydrogen with a less number of equivalents of the base than of the sulphureted hydrogen.
SUB-IN-DI-CA'TION, n. [L. sub and indico.]
The act of indicating by signs. Barrow.