subalternate
English
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[edit]subalternate (comparative more subalternate, superlative most subalternate)
- Succeeding by turns; successive.
- Subaltern; inferior; subordinate.
- 1670, John Evelyn, “. Introduction.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 2:
- [S]uch as are Sative and Hortenſial ſubalternate to the other; [...]
- (Can we date this quote?), Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies:
- To which Two Species of Tyranny as subalternate things to the Genus, the other innumerable Courses they took to extirpate and make this a desolate People, may be reduced and referr'd.
- 1917, Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologiae, Second Part of the Second Part/Question 4:
- Further, the same thing should not be placed in different genera. Now "substance" and "evidence" are different genera, and neither is subalternate to the other. Therefore it is unfitting to state that faith is both "substance" and "evidence."
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[edit]subalternate (plural subalternates)
- (logic) A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one.
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[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subalternate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
