Heroick kings, whose high perfections have made them awful to their subjects, can struggle with and subdue the corruption of the times. Davenant.

2. That on which any operation, either mental or material, is performed. Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn, and near approaches The subject of our watch.

Shakspeare.

Milton.

This subject for heroick song pleased me. Here he would have us fix our thoughts; nor are they too dry a subject for our contemplation. Decay of Pisty. I will not venture on so nice a subject with my severe style. Mere. Make choice of a subject beautiful and noble, which, being capable of all the graces that colours and elegance of design can give, shall afford a perfect art, an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate. Dryden.

The subject of a proposition is that concerning which any thing is affirmed or denied.

Watts.

Hooker.

How hard it is now for him to frame himself to subjection, that, having once set before his eyes the hope of a kingdom, hath found encourage

ment.

Spenser.

Milton.

Both in subjection now to sensual appetite. SUBJECTIVE. adj. (from subject.] Relating not to the object, but the subject. Certainty, according to the schools, is distinguished into objective and subjective: objective is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of the truth of it.

Watts.

SUBINGRE'SSION.n.s. [sub and ingressus, Latin.] Secret entrance.

The pressure of the ambient air is strengthened upon the accession of the air sucked out; which forceth the neighbouring air to a violent subingression of its parts. Boyle. TO SUBJOIN. [sub and joindre, Fr. subjungo, Latin.] To add at the end; to add a terward.

v. a.

He makes an excuse from ignorance, the only thing that could take away the fault; namely, that he knew not that he was the high-priest, and subjoins a reason. South. SUBILA'NEOUS. adj. [subitaneus, Lat.] Sudden; hasty. To SUBJUGATE. v. a. [subjuguer, Fr. subjugo, Lat.] To conquer; to subdue; to bring under dominion by force. O fav'rite virgin, that hast warm'd the breast Whose sov'reign dictates subjugate the east!

Prior.

SUBJUNCTION. n. s. [from subjungo, Latin.) The state of being subjoined; the act of subjoining.

The verb undergoes in Greek a different formation; and in dependence upon, or subjunction to; some other verb. Clarke. SUBJUNCTIVE. adj. [subjunctivus, Lat. subjonctif, French.]

1. Subjoined to something else. 2. In grammar.

The verb undergoes a different formation, to signify the same intentions as the indicative, yet not absolutely, but relatively to some other verb, which is called the subjunctive mood.

Clarke.

SUBLAPSA'RIAN. adj. [sub and lapsus, SUBLA'PSARY. S Latin.] Done after the fall of man.

SUBLATION.n.s. [sublatio, Latin.] The
act of taking away.
SUBLEVATION. n. s. [sublevo, Latin.]
The act of raising on high.
SUBLIMABLE. adj. [from sublime.] Pos-

sible to be sublimed. SUBLIMABLENESS. n.s. [from sublimable.] Quality of admitting sublimation. He obtained another concrete as to taste and smell, and easy sublimableness, as common salt armoniack.

Boyle. To SUBLIMATE. v. a. [from sublime.] 1. To raise by the force of chymical fire. 2. To exalt; to heighten; to elevate.

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And as his actions rose, so raise they still their In words, whose weight best suits a sublimated strain. Drayton. Not only the gross and illiterate souls, but the most aerial and sublimated, are rather the more proper fuel for an immaterial fire.

Decay of Piety.

The precepts of christianity are so excellent and refined, and so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt, as shews flesh and blood never revealed it. Decay of Piety.

SUBLIMATE. n. 5. [from sublime.]

1. Any thing raised by fire in the retort.

Enquire the manner of subliming, and what metals endure subliming, and what body the sublimate makes.

Bacon.

2. Quicksilver raised in the retort. SUBLIMATE. adj. Raised by fire in the vessel.

The particles of mercury, uniting with the acid particles of spirit of salt, compose mercury sublimate; and, with the particles of sulphur, cinnabar. Neruton.

SUBLIMATION. n. s. [sublimation, Fr. from sublimate.]

1. A chymical operation which raises bodies in the vessel by the force of fire.

Sublimation differs very little from distillation, excepting that in distillation only the fluid parts of bodies are raised, but in this the solid and dry; and that the matter to be distilled may be either solid or fluid, but sublimation is only concerned about solid substances. There is also another difference, namely, that rarefaction, which is of very great use in distillation, has hardly any room in sublimation; for the substances which are to be sublimed, being solid, are incapable of rarefaction; and so it is only impulse that can raise them. Quincy.

Separation is wrought by weight, as in the settlement of liquors, by heat, by precipitation, or sublimation; that is, a calling of the several parts up or down, which is a kind of attraction. Bacon.

Since oil of sulphur per campanam is of the same nature with oil of vitriol, may it not be inferred that sulphur is a mixture of volatile and fixed parts, so strongly cohering by attraction, as to ascend together by sublimation? Neruton. 1. Exaltation; elevation; act of heightening or improving.

She turns

Bodies to spirits, by sublimation strange. Davies.

Dryden. 2. High in excellence; exalted by nature. My earthly strained to the height In that celestial colloquy sublime. Can it be, that souls sublime Return to visit our terrestrial clime? And that the gen'rous mind, releas'd by death, Can covet lazy limbs? Dryden.

3. High in style or sentiment; lofty; grand.

Prior.

Easy in stile thy work, in sense sublime. 4. Elevated by joy.

All yet left of that revolted rout, Heav'n-fall'n, in station stood or just array, Sublime with expectation.

Milton

Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine. Milton. 5. Lofty of mien; elevated in manner. He was sublime, and almost tumorous, in his looks and gestures. Wotton.

His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule. Milton.

SUBLIME. n. s. The grand or lofty style. The sublime is a gallicism, but now naturalized.

Longinus strengthens all his laws,

And is himself the great sublime he draws. Pope. The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of the words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase; the perfect sublime arises from all three together. Addison.

Το SUBLIME. v. a. [sublimer, French; from the adjective.]

1. To raise by a chymical fire.

Study our manuscripts, those myriads Of letters, which have past 'twixt thee and me; Thence write our annals, and in them lessons be To all, whom love's subliming fire invades.

2. To raise on high.

Donne.

Although thy trunk be neither large nor

strong,

Nor can thy head, not help'd, itself sublime, Yet, like a serpent, a tall tree can climb.

Denbam.

3. To exalt; to heighten; to improve.
Flow'rs, and then fruit,
Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd,
To vital spirits aspire.
Milton.

The fancies of most are moved by the inward springs of the corporeal machine, which, even in the most sublimed intellectuals, is dangerously influential.

Glanville.

Art, being strengthened by the knowledge of things, may pass into nature by slow degrees, and so be sublimed into a pure genius, which is capable of distinguishing betwixt the beauties of nature and that which is low in her. Dryden.

Meanly they seek the blessing to confine, And force that sun but on a part to shine; Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes. Pope.

SUBLIMELY.adv. [from sublime.] Loftily: grandly.

In English lays, and all sublimely great, Thy Homer charms with all his ancient heat.

Fustian's so sublimely bad;

Parnell.

It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Pope. SUBLIMENESS. n. s. [sublimitas, Lat.] The same as sublimity.

SUBLIMITY. n. 5. [from sublime; sublimité, French; sublimitas, Latin.] 1. Height of place; local elevation. 2. Height of nature; excellence.

As religion looketh upon him who in majesty and power is infinite, as we ought we account not of it, unless we esteem it even according to that very height of excellency which our hearts conceive, when divine sublimity itself is rightly considered.

Hooker.

In respect of God's incomprehensible sublimity and purity, this is also true, that God is neither a mind nor a spirit like other spirits, nor a light such as can be discerned. Raleigh.

3. Loftiness of style or sentiment.

Addison.

Milton's distinguishing excellence lies in the sublimity of his thoughts, in the greatness of which he triumphs over all the poets, modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. SUBLINGUAL. adj. [sublingual, French; sub and lingua, Lat.] Placed under the tongue.

Those subliming humours should be intercepted, before they mount to the head, by sublingual pills.

Harvey. SUBLU'NAR.) adj.[sublunaire, French; SU'BLUNARY.J sub and luna, Latin.] Situate beneath the moon; earthly; terrestrial; of this world.

Dull sublunarý lovers! love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit

Of absence, 'cause it cannot remove

The thing which elemented it.

Donne.

Night measur'd, with her shadowy cone, Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milt. Through seas of knowledge we our course

advance,

Discov'ring still new worlds of ignorance; And these discov'ries make us all confess That sublunary science is but guess.

Denbam.

The celestial bodies above the moon, being not subject to chance, remain in perpetual order, while all things sublunary are subject to change.

Ovid had warn'd her to beware
Of strolling gods, whose usual trade is,
Under pretence of taking air,

To pick up sublunary ladies.

Dryden.

The fair philosopher to Rowley flies, Where in a box the whole creation lies;

Swift.

She sees the planets in their turns advance, And scorns, Poitier, this this su sublunary dance. Young. SUBMARINE. adj. [sub and mare, Lat.] Lying or acting under the sea.

marine plants, but also the lithophyta, affect this manner of growing, as I observed in corals. Ray.

To SUBMERGE. v. a. [submerger, Fr. submergo, Latin.) To drown; to put under water.

So half my Egypt was submerg'd, and made A cistern for scal'd snakes. Sbakspeare. SUBME'RSION.n.s. [submersion, French; from submersus, Latin.) The act of drowning; state of being drowned.

The great Atlantick island is mentioned in Plato's Timæus, almost contiguous to the west ern parts of Spain and Africa, yet wholly swallowed up by that ocean; which, if true, might afford a passage from Africa to America by land before that submersion.

TO SUBMI'NISTER.

To SUBMI'NISTRATE.

To supply; to afford.

use.

Hale.

v. a. [subministro, Latin.] Not much in

Some things have been discovered, not only by the industry of mankind, but even the inferior animals have subministered unto man the invention of many things, natural, artificial, and medicinal.

Hale.

Nothing subministrates apter matter to be converted into pestilent seminaries, than steams of nasty folks.

Harvey.

To SUBMINISTER. v. n. To subserve; to be useful to.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. L'Estrange.

SUEMI'SS. adj. [from submissus, Latin.] Humble; submissive; obsequious.

King James, mollified by the bishop's submiss and eloquent letters, wrote back, that though he were in part moved by his letters, yet he should not be fully satisfied except he spake with him.

Bacon.

SUBMI'SSLY.adv. [from submiss.] Humbly; with submission.

Humility consists, not in wearing mean clothes, and going softly and submissly, but in mean opinion of thyself.

Taylor. Το SUBMIT. v. a. [soumettre, French; submitto, Latin.]

1. To let down; to sink.

Sometimes the hill submits itself a while In small descents, which do its height beguile; And sometimes mounts, but so as billows play, Whose rise not hinders but makes short our way. Dryden.

Neptune stood,

With all his hosts of waters at command, Beneath them to submit th' officious flood, And with his trident shov'd them off the sand.

Christian people submit themselves to conformable observance of the lawful and religious constitutions of their spiritual rulers. White. Will ye submit your neck, and chuse to bend The supple knee? Milton.

3.. To leave to discretion; to refer to judgment.

Swift.

Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. To SUBMIT. v. n. To be subject; to acquiesce in the authority of another; to yield.

To thy husband's will Thine shall submit: he over thee shall rule. Milton.

Our religion requires from us, not only to forego pleasure, but to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death. Rogers. SUBMULTIPLE. n. s. A submultiple number or quantity is that which is contair ed in another number a certain number of times exactly: thus 3 is submul

or power.

It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding; not as a servant to a master, but as a queen to her king, who acknowledges a subjection, yet retains a majesty. South.

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute. Addison.

2. Descending in a regular series.

The two armies were assigned to the leading of two generals, rather courtiers than martial men, yet assisted with subordinate commanders of great experience. Bacon.

His next subordinate Awak'ning, thus to him in secret spake. Milt. These carry such plain characters of disagreement or affinity, that the several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished, Woodward.

To SUBORDINATE. v. a. [sub and ordino, Lat.] To range under another. Not in use, but proper and elegant.

If I have subordinated picture and sculpture to architecture, as their mistress, so there are other inferior arts subordinate to them. Wotton.

SUBORDINATELY. adv. [from subordinate.] In a series regularly descending.

It being the highest step of ill, to which all others subordinately tend, one would think it could be capable of no improvement.

Decay of Piety. SUBORDINATION. n. s. [subordination,

Fr. from subordinate.]

1. The state of being inferiour to another. Nor can a council national decide, But with subordination to her guide. 2. A series regularly descending.

Dryden.

The natural creatures having a local subordi nation, the rational having a political, and sometimes a sacred.

Holiday.

3. Place of rank.

If we would suppose a ministry where every single person was of distinguished piety, and all great officers of state and law diligent in chusing persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the examples of their superiors, the empire of irreligion would be soon destroyed. Swift.

Το SUBO'RN. v. a. [suborner, Fr. suborno, Latin.]

1. To procure privately; to procure by secret collusion.

His judges were the self-same men by whom Hooker. his accusers were suborned.

Fond wretch! thou know'st not what thou speak'st,

Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour

In hateful practice.

Shakspeare.

Milton.

Reason may meet

Some specious object, by the foe suborn'd,
And fall into deception.

His artful bosom heaves dissembled sighs;

And tears suborn'd fall dropping from his eyes.

2. To procure by indirect means.

Behold

Prior.

Those who by ling'ring sickness lose their breath,

And those who by despair suborn their death. Dryden. SUBORNA'TION. n. s. [subornation, Fr. from suborn.] The crime of procuring any to do a bad action.

Thomas earl of Desmond was through false subornation of the queen of Edward IV. brought to his death at Tredagh most unjustly. Spenser. You set the crown Upon the head of this forgetful man, And for his sake wear the detested blot Of murd'rous subornation.

Shakspeare.

The fear of punishment in this life will preserve men from few vices, since some of the blackest often prove the surest steps to favour; such as ingratitude, hypocrisy, treachery, and

subornation.

Swift.

SUBO'RNER, n. s. [suborneur, Fr. from suborn.] One that procures a bad action to be done.

SUBPOE'NA. N. s. [sub and pana, Lat.] A writ commanding attendance in a court, under a penalty.

SUBQUADRUPLE. adj. [sub and quadru ple.] Containing one part of four.

As one of these under pulleys abates half of that heaviness the weight hath in itself, and causes the power to be in a subduple proportion unto it, so two of them abate half of that which remains, and cause a subquadruple proportion.

Wilkins.

See SURROGATE.

They united by subscribing a covenant, which they pretended to be no other than had been subscribed in the reign of king James, and that his majesty himself had subscribed it; by which imposition people of all degrees engaged themClarendon. selves in it.

name.

Osius, with whose hand the Nicene creed was set down, and framed for the whole christian world to subscribe unto, so far yielded in the end, as even with the same hand to ratify the Arians confession.

Hooker.

Advise thee what is to be done, And we will all subscribe to thy advice. Sbakıp. If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern

2. To promise a stipulated sum for the

promotion of any undertaking. SUBSCRIBER. n. s. [from subscriptio, Latin.)

1. One who subscribes. 2. One who contributes to any undertaking.

Let a pamphlet come out upon a demand in a proper juncture, every one of the party who can spare a shilling shali be a subscriber. Swift. SUBSCRIPTION. n.s. (from subscriptio, Latin.]

1. Any thing underwritten.

The man asked, Are ye christians? We answered we were fearing the less because of the cross we had seen in the subscription. Bacon. 2. Consent or attestation given by underwriting the name.

3. The act or state of contributing to any undertaking.

The work he plied;
Stocks and subscriptions pour on ev'ry side.

Pope. Pope.

South-sea subscriptions take who please,
Leave me but liberty.

4. Submission; obedience. Not in use.
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children;
You owe me no subscription. Shakspeare.
SUBSECTION.n.s.[sub and sectio, Lat.]
A subdivision of a larger section into a
lesser; section of a section.
SUBSECUTIVE. adj. [from subsequor,
Lat.] Following in train.

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