Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUB-REP-TI'TIOUS, or SUB-REP'TIVE, a. [L. surreptitius, supra.]

Falsely crept in; fraudulently obtained. [See Surreptitious.]

SUB-REP-TI'TIOUS-LY, adv.

By falsehood; by stealth. – Sherwood.

SUB'RO-GATE, v.t. [L. subrogo.]

To put in the place of another. [Not in use. See Surrogate.]

SUB-RO-GA'TION, n.

In the civil law, the substituting of one person in the place of another and giving him his rights. – Encyc.

SUB-RO-TUND', a. [L. sub and rotundus, round.]

Almost round; almost orbicular. – Lee.

SUB-SA-LINE, a.

Moderately saline or salt. – Encyc.

SUB'SALT, n.

A salt having an excess of the base.

SUB-SAN-NA'TION, n. [L. subsanno.]

Derision; scorn. – More.

SUB-SCAP'U-LAR, a. [L. sub and scapula.]

The subscapular artery is the large branch of the axillary artery, which rises near the lowest margin of the scapula. – Cyc.

SUB-SCRIB-A-BLE, a.

That may be subscribed.

SUB-SCRIBE, v.i.

1. To promise to give a certain sum by setting one's name to a paper. The paper was offered and many subscribed.
2. To assent; as, I could not subscribe to his opinion.

SUB-SCRIBE, v.t. [L. subscribo; sub and scribo, to write; Fr. souscrire; It. soscrivere; Sp. subscribir. Literally, to write underneath. Hence,]

1. To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to something written, or to bind one's self by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; man subscribes a bond or articles of agreement.
2. To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts; and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies of records.
3. To promise to give by writing one's name; as, each man subscribed ten dollars or ten shillings.
4. To submit. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SUB-SCRIB-ED, pp.

1. Having a name or names written underneath. The petition is subscribed by two thousand persons.
2. Promised by writing the name and sum. A large sum subscribed.

SUB-SCRIB-ER, n.

1. One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
2. One who enters his name for a paper, book, map and the like.

SUB-SCRIB-ING, ppr.

Writing one's name underneath; assenting to or attesting by writing the name beneath; entering one's name as a purchaser.

SUB-SCRIP'TION, n. [L. subscriptio.]

1. Any thing, particularly a paper, with names subscribed.
2. The act of subscribing or writing one's name underneath; name subscribed; signature.
3. Consent or attestation given by underwriting the name.
4. The act of contributing to any undertaking.
5. Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed. We speak of an individual subscription, or of the whole subscription to a fund.
6. Submission; obedience. [Not in use.]

SUB-SEC'TION, n. [L. sub and sectio.]

The part or division of a section; a subdivision; the section of a section. – Dict.

SUB-SEC'U-TIVE, a. [L. subsequor, subsecutus.]

Following in a train or succession. [Little used.]

SUB-SEM'I-TONE, n.

In music, the sharp seventh or sensible of any key.

SUB-SEP'TU-PLE, a. [L. sub and septuplus.]

Containing one of seven parts. – Wilkins.

SUB'SE-QUENCE, n. [L. subsequor, subsequens; sub and sequor, to follow.]

A following; a state of coming after something. – Grew.

SUB'SE-QUENT, a. [Fr. from L. subsequens, supra.]

1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation Rome.
2. Following in the order of place or succession; succeeding; as, a subsequent clause in a treaty. What is obscure in a passage may be illustrated by subsequent words.

SUB'SE-QUENT-LY, adv.

1. At a later time; in time after something else. Nothing was done at the first meeting; what was subsequently transacted, I do not know.
2. After something else in order. These difficulties will be subsequently explained.

SUB-SERVE, v.t. [subserv'; L. subservio; sub and servio, to serve.]

To serve in subordination; to serve instrumentally. In most engines, we make the laws of matter subserve the purposes of art. Not made to rule, / But to subserve where wisdom bears command. – Milton.

SUB-SERV'ED, pp.

Served in subordination.