SU BOʻCTOPLE. } adj;a [sub and octavus ; a cause, son. SUBMI'SSIVE. adj. [submissus, Latin.] tiple of 21, as being contained in it sévex Humble ; testifying submission or infe- times exactly. . riority. . On what submissive message art thou sent? Latin ; and octuple.] Shekspeare. Her at his feet submissive in distress Containing one part of eight. As one of these under pulleys abates half of He thus with peaceful words uprais'd. Milton. that heaviness of the weight, and causes the Sudden from the golden throne power to be in a subduple proportion; so two With a submissive step I hasted down; I of them abate half of that which remains, and The glowing garland from my hair I took, cause a subquadruple proportion, three a subLove in my heart, obedience in my look. Prior. sextuple, four a suboctuple. Wilkins. SUBMI'SSIVELY. adv. (from submissive.] Had they erected the cube of a foot for their Humbly; with confession of inferiority. principal concave, and geometrically taken its The goddess, suboctave, the congius, from the cube of half a Soft in her tone, submissively replies. Dryden. foot, they would have divided the congius into But speech ev'n there submissively withdraws eight parts, each of which would have been reFrom rights of subjects, and the poor man's gularly the cube of a quarter foot, their well known palm : this is the course taken for our Then pompous silence reigns, and stills the noisy gallon, which has the pint for its suboctave. laws. Popes Arbutbrot, n. s. [from subordiHumility ; confession of fault or infe- SUBO'RDINANCY.S nate. Subordinacy riority. is the proper and anlogical word.] If thou sin in wine and wantonness, 1. The state of being subject. Boast not thereof, nor make thy shame thy Pursuing the imagination through all its ex glory; travagancies is no improper method of correcto Frailty gets pardon by submissiveness, ing, and bringing it to act in subordindcy to reaBut he chat boasts shuts that out of his story; Spectator. He makes fat war with God, and doth defy, 2. Series of subordination. With his poor clod of earth, the spacious sky. The subordinancy of the government changing Herbert. hands so often, makes an unsteadiness in the SOBMI'ssly. adv. [from submiss.] Hum. pursuit of the publick interests. Temple. bly; with submission. SUBOʻRDINATE. adj. [sub and ordinaHumility consists, not in wearing mean clothes, tus, Latin.) and going softly and submissly, but in mean opi 1. Inferiour in order, in nature, in dignity, nion of thyself. Taylor. TO SUBMIÄT. v. a. (soumettre, French; or power, le was subordinate, not enslaved, to the undersubmitto, Latin.) standing; not as a servant to a master, but as a 1. To let down ; to sink. queen to her king, who acknowledges a subjecSometimes the hill submits itself a while tion, yet retains a majesty. Soutb. In small descents, which do its height beguile; Whether dark presages of the night proceed And sometimes mounts, but so as billows play, from any latent power of the soul during her Whose rise not hinders but makes short our way. abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate Dryden. spirits, has been a dispute. Addison. Neptune stood, With all his hosts of waters at command, 2. Descending in a regular series. The two armies were assigned to the leading Beneath them to submit th' orlicious food, of two generals, rather courtiers than martial And with his trideot shov'd them otf che sand. men, yet assisted with subordinate commanders Dryden. of great experience. Bacon. 2. To subject ; to resign without resist His next subordinate ance to authority. Avak'ning, thus to him in secret spake. Milt. Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself un- These carry such plain characters of disagreeder her hands. Genesis. ment or affinity, that the several kinds and subChristian people submit themselves to con- ordinate species of each are easily distinguished, formable observance of the lawful and religious Woodward. constitutions of their spiritual rulers. W bite. To SUBO'RDINATE. v.a. (sub and ordino, Will ye submit your neck, and chuse to bend The supple knee? Lat.] To range under another. Not in Milton. 3. To leave to discretion ; to refer to use, but proper and elegant. judgment. If I have subordinated picture and sculpture to architecture, as their mistress, so there are other Whether the condition of the clergy be able inferior arts subordinate to them. Wotton. to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. SUBOʻRDINATELY. adv. [from subordi Swift. To SUBMI'T. v. n. To be subject ; to nate.] In a series regularly descending: acquiesce in the authority of another ; le being the highest step of'ill, to which all others subordinately tend, one would think it to yield. could be capable of no improvement. To thy husband's will Decay of Piety. Thine shall submit: he over thee shall rule. SUBORDINA'Tion. n. s. [subordination, Milton. Fr. from subordinate.) Our religion requires from us, not only to forego p'easure, but to submit to pain, disgrace, 1. The state of being inferiour to another. Rogers. Nor can a council national decide, SUB SU'LTIPLE, n. s. A submultiple num But with subordination to her guide. Dryden. ber or quantity is that which is con 2. A series regularly descending. taired in another number a certain num The natural creatures having a local subordia ber of times exactly : thus nation, the rational having a political, and some} is submul. times a sacred. Holiday. . and even death. a 3. Place of rank. truth which would have prevented the If we would suppose a ministry •vhere every grant. Baiky. single person was of distinguished piety, and all To SUBROGATE. v. a. (subrogo, Lai.) great officers of state and law diligent in chusing See SURROGATE. persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the examples of their supe TO SUBSCRIBE. v. a. (souscrire, Fr. subriors, the empire of irreligion would be soon de- scribo, Latin.) stroyed. Swift. 1. To give consent to, by underwriting I. SUBOʻRN. v. a. (suborner, Fr. suborno, the rame. Latin.) They united by subscribing a covenant, which 1. To procure privately ; to procure by they pretended to be no other than had been secret collusion. subscribed in the reign of king James, and that His judges were the self-same men by whom his majesty himself had subscribed it; by which his accusers were suborned. Hocker. Clarcador, selves in it. Fond wretch ! thou know'st not what thou The reader sees the names of those persons speak'st, by whom this letter is subscribed. Addisen. Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour In hatetul practice. Sbukspearea 2. To attest by writing the name. Reason may meet Their particular testimony ought to be better Some specious object, by the foe suborn'd, credited, than some other subscribed with an And fall into deception. Milton. W bitzifi. Prior. Contin'd to exhibition ! all is gone. Sbakspearis 2. To procure by ir direct means. TO SUBSCRIBE. V. n. 1. To give consent. Those who by ling'ring sickness lose their Osius, with whose hand the Nicene creed was breath, set down, and framed for the whole christian And those who by despair suborn their death. world to subscribe unto, so far yielded in the end, Dryden. as even with the same hand to ratify the Arians SUBORNA'TION. n. s. [subornation, Fr. confession. Hecker. from suborn.] The crime of procuring Advise thee what is to be done, And we will all subscribe to thy advice. Sbaésp. any to do a bac action. Thomas earl of Desmond was through false if wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time, subornation of the queen of Edward iv. brought to his death at Tredagh most unjustly. Spenser. Thou shouldst have said, Go, sorter, turn the You set the crown key, All crucis else subscrib'd. Upon the head of this forgetful man, Sbakspeare. And for his sake wear the detested blot So spake much humbled Eve; but fate Of inurd'rous subornation. Subscribe not: nature first gave signs, impress'd Milta. The fear of punishment in this life will preserve men from few vices, since some of the 2. To promise a stipulated sum for the blackest often prove the surest steps to favour ; promotion of any underiaking. such as ingratitude, hypocrisy, treachery, and SUBSCRIBER. n. so [from subscription subornatian. Swift. Latin.) suborn.] One that procures a bad action 2. One who contributes to any underto be done. taking. SUBPOE'N A. n. s. [sub and pæna, Lat.) A Let a pamphlet come out upon a demand in writ commanding attendance in a court, a proper juncture, every one of the party who under a penalty. can spare a shilling shall be a subscriber. Ševifi. SUBQUADRU'PLE. adj. [sub and quadru. SUBSCRIPTION: n. s. [from subscriptio, ple.] Containing one part of four. Latin.) As one of these under pulleys abates half of 1. Any thing underwritten. that heaviness the weight hath in itself, and The man asked, Are ye christians? We ancauses the power to be in a subduple proportion swered we were; fearing the less because of unto it, so two of themi abate halt of that which the cross we had seen in the subscription. Bates, remains, and cause a subquadruple proportion. 2. Consent or attestation given by under Wilkins. writing the name. SUBQUINTU'PLE.adi. [sub and quintuple.] 3. The act or state of contributing to any Containing one part of five. undertaking: If unto the lower pulley there were added an The work he plied ; other, then the power would be unto the weight Stocks and subscriptions pour on ev'ry side. in a subquintuple proportion. Wilkins. SUBRE'CTOR. n. s: [sub and rector.] The South-sea subscriptions take who please, rector's vicegerent. Leave me but liberty. Pepe. He was chosen subrector of the college. 4. Submission; obedience. Not in use. Walton. I tax nor you, you elements, with unkindness; SUBRE'PTION. n. s. [subreption, Fr. sub- I never gave you kingdon, call'd you children; reptus, Lat.] The act of obtaining a fa You owe me no subscription. Sbaéspeare. vour by surprise or unfair representa. SUBSE'CTIOX. n. s. (sub and sectio, Lat.] tion. Dict. A subdivision of a larger section into a SUBKEPTI'Trous. adj. [surreptice, Ir. lesser; section of a section. Dict. surreptitius, Lat.] Fraudulentlyobtained SUBSECUTIVE. adj. [from subsequor, from a superiour, by concealing some Lat.] Following in train. midn. Ray. vrew. Popes SUBSE PTU'PLE.cdj. [sub and sepintis, one God, to whom all things were referred; but Lat.] Containing one of seven puts: under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. Stilingflecto If unto this lower pulley there were added an These ranks of creatures are subservient one other, then the power would be to the weight to another, and the most of them servicxable to in a subquintuple proportion; is a tisird, a sibe septuple. Wilkins. While awake, we feel none of those inutions SU'EST QUENCE. ». s. [from subsequor, continually made in the disposal of the curreal Lat.] The state of following ; not pre- principles subservient berein. cedence. Sense is subservient unto fancy, fancy unto inBy this faculty we can take notice of the or. tellect. Grew. der of precedence and subsequence in which they We are not to consider the world as the body are past. Grew. of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, SUBSEQUENT. adj. [subsequent, Fr. 5zb- members, or parts; and they are his creat res, sequens, Lat. This word is improperly subordinate to him, and subservient to his will. Newton, pronounced long in the second syllable Most criticks, fond of some subservient art, by Shakspeare.} Following in train; not Still make the whole depend upon a part; preceding They talk or principies, but notions prize, In such indexes, although small pricks And all to one lov'd folly sacrifice. To their subsequent volumes, there is seen SUBSE'XTUPLE, adj. i sub and sextuplus, The baby figure of the giant mass Lat.) Containing one part of six. Of things to come, at large. Shekspeare. One of these under pullies abates half of that The subsequent words coine on before the pre- heaviness the weight hath, and causes the power cedent vanish. Bacon. to be in a subduple proportion unto it, two of Why does each consenting sign them a subquadruple proportion, three a subsexWith prudent harmony combine fuple. Wilkins. In turns to move, and suh-quent appear TU SUBSI'DE. v. n. (subsido, Lat.] To To gird the globe and reg te the year? Prior. This article is introduced as subsequent to the sink ; to tend downward. It is comtreaty of Munster, made about 1049, when monly used of one part of a compound, England was in the utmost confusion. Swift. sinking in the whole. Pope has used it SU'BSEQUENTLY.adv. [froid subsequent.] rather improperly, Not so as to go before; so as to iollow He shook the sacred honours of his head, in train. With terror trembled heav'n's subsiding hill, To men in coverning most things fill out ac And from his shaken curls ambrosial dews distil. cidentally, and come not into any curipliance Dryden. with their preconceived ends; but tl.cy are Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, forced to comply subsequently, and to strike in Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair: with things as they fall oui, by rostliminious The doubtful beam long nods froin side to side; after-applications of them to their purposes. At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. South. Pope. To SUBSE'RVE. v. a. [subservia, Lat.] SUBSI'DENCE. 1. s. [from subside.] The To serve in subordination; to serve in- SUESI'DENCY. act of sinking ; tendstrumentally: ency downward. Not made to rule, This gradual subsidency of the abyss would take But to subserve where wisdom bears command. up a considerable time. Burnet Mision. This miscellany of bodies being determined to It is a greater credit to know the ways of cap srbsidence merely by their different specifick tivating nature, and making her subscrve our gravitics, all those which had the same gravity subsided at the same time. purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues Woodward. of prolicy. Glanville. By the alternate motion of those air-bladders, Tne memory hath no special part of the brain whose surfaces are by turns freed from mutual devoted to its own service, but uses all those contact, and by a sudden subsidence meet again parts which subserve our sensations, as well as by the ingress and egress of the air, the liquor our thinking powers. Weisb. is still farther attenuated. Arbuthnot. SUBSE'R VIENCE. / n. s. [from subserve.] SUBSIDIARY. adj. [subsidiaire, Pr. subSUBSEÄRVIENCY. I Instrumental fitness, sitiarius, Lat. from subsidy. ] Assistant; use, or operation. brought in aid. Bitrer substances burn the blood, and are a Wicked spirits may by their cunning carry sort of subsidiary gall. Arbutbnot. farther in a seeming confederacy or subserviercy SUBSIDY. n. s. [subside, Fr. subsidium, to the designs of a good angel. Dryden. There is an immediate and agil subservience of Lat.] Aid, commonly such as is given the spirits to the empire of the soul. Hale. in money: We cannot look upon the body, wherein ap- They advised the king to send speedy aids, pears so much fitness, use, and subserviency to and with much alacrity granted a great rate of intinite functions, any otherwise than as the ef- subsidy. Bacon, fect of contrivance. Bentley. 'Tis all the subsidy the present age can raise. There is a regular subordination and sub Dryden. serviency among all the parts to beneficial ends. It is a celebrated notion of a patriot, that a Cheyne. house of commons should never grant such sube SUBSERVIENT. adj. [subserviens, Lat.] sidies as give no pain to the people, lest the naSubordinate ; instrumentally useful. tion should acquiesce under a burden they did Hammond had an incredible dexterity, scarce not feel. Addisoni. ever reading any thing which he did not make TO SUBSIGN. v. a. [subsigro, Lat.) To subierpient in one kind or other. F.!!. sign under. Phi osophers and common heathens belered, Neither have they seen any deed, before che VOL. IV. Bb a red pages: conquest, but subsigred with crosses and single : The essential part. names without surnames. Camden. It will serve our turn to comprehend the sube TO SUBSIST. v. n. (subsister, Fr. subsisto, stance, without contining ourselves to scrupulous Latin.) exactness in form. Digbr. 1. Tote; to hare existence. This edition is the same in substance with the Latin. Burnet. 2. To continue; to retain the present state They are the best epitomes, and let you see or condition. with one cast of the eye the substance of a hundFirm we subsist, but possible to swerve. Milt. Addison. The very foundation was removed, and it was 4. Something real, not imaginary; somea moral impossibility that the republick could thing solid, not empty. subsist any longer. Swift. Shadows to-night 3. To hare means of living ; to be main. Have struck more terror so the soul of Richard, tained. Than cau the substance of ten thousand soldiers He shone so powerfully upon me, that, like Armd all in proof, and led by shallow Richthe heat of a Russian summer, he ripened the mond. Sbakspeare. fruits of poetry in a cold climate; and gave me He the future evil shall no less wherewithal do subsist in the long winter which In apprehension than in substance feel. Miltes. succeeded. Dryden. Heroick virtue did his actions guide, Let us remember those that want necessaries, And he the substance, not th' appearance, chose: 25 tre ourselves should have desired to be re- To rescue one such friend he took more pride, membered, had it been our sad lot to subsist on Than to destroy whole thousands of such foes. other men's charity. Atterbury. Dryder. 4. To inbere; to have existence by means Godis no longer to be worshipped and believed of something else. in as a god foreshewing and assuring by types, Though the general natures of these qualities but as a god who has performed the substance of wliat he promised. Nesa, are sufficiently distant from one another, yet when they come to subsist in particulars, and to 5. Body ; corporeal nature. be clothed with several accidents, then the dis- Betiveen the parts of opake and coloured cernment is not so easy. South. bodies are many spaces, either empty or reSUBSISTENCE or SUBSISTENCY. n. s. plenished with mediums of other densities; as, (subsistance, Fr. from subsist.] water between the unging corpuscles wherewith 1. Real being. any liquor is impregnated, air between the aqueous globules that constitute clouds or mists, The flesh, and the conjunction of the flesh and for the most part spaces void of both air with God, began both at cnc instant; his making and taking to himself our flesh was but one act; and water; but yet perhaps not wholly void of all substance between the parts of hard bodies. so that in Christ there is no personal subsister.ee Naotok, but one, and that from everlasting. Hooker. The qua'ities of plants are more various than We know as little how the union is dissolved, those of animal sübsiune's. Arbwibact. that is, the chain of these differing subsistencies There may be a great and constant cough, that compound us, as low it first commenced. with an extraordinary discharge of fiegmatick Glanville. mutter, while, notwithstanding, the substance of Not only the things had subsistence, but the the lungs remains sound. Blackmore very images were of some creatures existing. 6. Wealih; means of life. Stilling fleet. He hath eaten me cut of house and home, 1. Competence; means of upporting life. and hath put all my substance into that fai belly His viceroy could only propose to himself a of his; but I will have some of it out again. comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his Sbadspeare. province. Addison. We are destroying many thousand lives, and 3. Inherence in something else. exhausting our substance, but not for our own SUBSISTENT. adj. (sabsistens, Lat.] interest. Savi 1. Having real being. SUBSTA’NTIAL. adj. [substantiel, Fr.from Such as deny spirits subsisient without bodies, substance.) will with difficulty affirm the separate existence of their own. 1. Real; actually existing. Brotun. 2. Inherent. If this atheist vould have his chance to be a These qualities are not subsistent in those bo real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than dies, but are, operations of fancy begotten in the vulgar. Bentley something else. Bentleg. 2. True; solid; real; not merely scerninga SUBSTANCE. n. s. [substance, Fr. sus. O blessed, blessed right! I am afraid, stantia, Latin.) Being in night, all chis is but a dream; 1. Being; something existing ; something Too tiattering sweet to be substantial. Sbalsp. To give thee being, I ient of which we can say that it is. Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Since then the soul works by herself alone, Substantial life. Milien Springs not from sense, nor humours well agree if happiness be a suł startial good, ing, Not fram'd ei accidents, nor subject to them, Her nature is peculiar, and her own; I err'd to seek i: in a blind revenge. Denburg, She is a substance, and a perfect being. Davies. Time, as a river, hath brought down to us The strength of guds, what is more light and superficial, while things And this empyreal substance, cannot fail. Mill.' more sold and sustantial have been inmersich 2. That which supporis accidents. Glanviii'e. What creatures there inhabit, of what mold The difference betwixt the empty vanity of And substance? Milton. ostentation, and the substantial ornaments of Every being is considered as subsisting in and virtue. L'Estrange, hu itsell, and then it is called a suhstunce; or it Observations are the only sure grounds whme. subsists in and by anuther, and then it is called a on to build a lasting and substanti.:1 philosu by. mode or maana of bring. Walto. Hoodstais in use. A solid and substantial greatness of soul, looks ever advenes to the act itself alreadý substandown with neglect on the censures and applauses tiated. Aylife. of the multitude. Addison. SU'BSTANTIVE.N. s. (substantif, Fr. subThis useful, charitable, humble employment of yourselves, is what I recommend to you with stantivum, Lat.) A noun betokening the greatest earnestness, as being a substantial part thing, not a quality. of a wise and pious life. Law. Claudian perpetually closes his sense at the 3. Corporeal; material. end of a verse, commonly called golden, or two Now shine these planets with substantial rays? substantives and two adjectives, with a verb beDoes innate lustre gild their measur'd days? twixt them to keep the peace. Dryden. Prior. SUBSTANTIVE. adj. [ substantivus, Lat.] The sun appears fiat like a plate of silver, the 1. Solid ; depending only on itself. Not moon as big as the sun, and the rainbow a large substantial arch in the sky; all which are gross He considered how sufficient and substantide falsehoods. Watts. this land was to maintain itself, without any aid 4. Strong ; stout; buiky. of the foreigner. Bacon. Substantial doors, 2. Betokening existence. Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault. One is obliged to join many particulars in Milton. one proposition, because the repetition of the 5. Responsible; moderately wealthy; pos substantive verb would be tedious. Arbuthnot. sessed of substance. SUBSTA'NTIVELY, adv. [from substanTrials of crimes and titles of right shall be tive.] As a substantive. made by verdict of a jury, chosen out of the honest and most substantial freeholders. Spenser. To Su’BSTITUTE. v. a. (substituer, Fr. The merchants, and substantial citizens, can substitutus, from sub and statuo, Lat.] not make up more ilian a hundred thousand fa- To put in the place of another. milies. Addison. In the original designs of speaking, a man can SUBSTANTIALITY. n. s. [from substan substitute none for them that can equally contial.] duce to his honour. Goverr.ment of the Tongue. If a swarthy tongue 1. The state of real existence. Is underneath his humid palate hung, 2. Co poreity; materiality Reject him then, and substitute another. Dryden. Body cannot act on any thing but by motion; Some few verses are inserted or substituted in motion cannot be received but by quantity and the room of others. Congreve. matter: the soul is a stronger to such gross sube SU'ESTITUTE, 9. s. (substitut, Fr. from stantiality, and owns nothing of these. Glanville. the verb.] SUBSTA'NTIALLY, adv. [from substan- 1. One placed by another to act with detia!.] legated power. 1. In manner of a substance ; with real- Were you sworn to the duke, or to the deputy ? ity of existance. To him and his substitutes. Sbakspears. in him his Father shone substantially express'd. You've taken up, Milton. Under the counterfeited zeal of God, 2. Strongly; solidly. The subjects of his substitute, iny father, Having so substantially provided for the north, And here upswarm’d them. Shakspeare. they promised themselves they should end the Hast thou not made me here thy substitute, war that suninter. Clarendon. And these inferior far beneath me set? Milton. Providence delegates to the supreme magi3. Truly; solidly; really; with fixed strate the same power for the good of men, purpose. The laws of this religion would make men, if which that supreme magistrate transfers to those several substitutes who act under him. Addison, they would truly observe them, substaniially religious towards God, chaste, and temperate. 2. It is used likewise for things: as, one Tillotson. medicine is a substitute for another. 4. With competent wealth. SUBSTITU’TION. n. so (substitution, Fr. SUBST A'XTLALNESS, 1. s. [from substan- from substitute.] The act of placing any tial.] person or thing in the room of another; 1. The state of being substantial. the state of being placed in the room of 2. Firmness; strengih; power of holding another. or lasting. He did believe When substantialness combineth with delight He was the duke, from substitution, fulness, fulness with fineness, how can the lana And executing th' outward face of royalty, guage which consisteih of these sound other With all prerogative. Sbakspeare: than most full of sweetness? Carden. Nor sal, suluhur, or mercury, can be separated In degree of substantialness next above the from any perfect metals; for every part, so se Dorique, sustaining the third, and adorning the parated, may easily be reduced into perfect mesecond story. Wotion. tal without substitution of that which chymists SUBSTA’NTIALS. n. s. [without singular.] To SUBSTRA'CT. v. a. [subtraho, Latin ; imagine to be wanting. Bacon. Essential parts. Alihough a custom introduced against the sub soustraction, French.] stantials of an appeal be not valid, as that is 1. To take away part from the whole. should not be appealed co a superior but to an 2. To take one number from another. inferior judge, yet a custom may be introduced SUBSTRA'CTION. n. s. (soustraire, souagainst the accidentals of an appeal. Ayliffe. straction, French.) To SUBSTA'NTIATE. v. a. [from sub- 1. The act of taking away part from the stone. To make to exist. whole. Tbe accidental of any act is said to be what. I cannot call this piece Tully's not my own, Bby |