Page images
PDF
EPUB

SUBOTA, an island on the E. of Athos. Liw. 44. (1.) * SUBPOENA. n. f. [fub and pæna, Lat.] A writ commanding attendance in a court under a penalty.

(2.) SUBPOENA, in law, is a writ whereby common perfons are called into chancery, in fuch cafes where the common law hath provided no ordinary remedy; and the name of it proceeds from the words therein, which charge the party called to appear at the day and place affigned, fub pana centum librarum, &c. The fubpoena is the leading procefs in the court of equity; and by statute, when a bill is filed against any perfon, procets of fubpoena thall be taken out to oblige the defendant to appear and anfwer the bill, &c.

(3.) SUBPOENA AD TESTIFICANDUM, a writ or procefs to bring in witneffes to give their teftimony. If a witness on being ferved with this procefs does not appear, the court will flue an attachment against him; or a party, plaintiff or defendant, injured by his non-attendance, may maintain an action against the witness. See BlackStone's Commentaries, Vol. III. p. 369.

(4.) SUBPOENA IN EQUITY, a procefs in equity, calling on a defendant to appear and anfwer to the complainant's bill. See ftatute 5th Geo. II. c. 25. which enacts that where the party cannot be found to be seived with a subpœna, and ab. fconds (a3 is believed) to avoid being ferved, a day fhall be appointed him to appear to the bill of the plaintiff, which is to be inferted in the London Gazette, read in the parish church where the defendant last lived, and fixed up at the Royal Exchange: and if the defendant doth not appear upon that day, the bill shall be taken pro confesso.

SUBQUADRUPLE. adj. [ fub and quadruple.] Containing one part of four.-As one of these under pulleys abates half of that heaviness the weight bath in itfeif, and caufes the power to be in a fubdup e proportion unto it, fo two of them abate half of that which remains, and cause a Jubquadruple proportion. Wilkins.

SUBQUINTUPLE. adj. [fab and quintuple,] Containing the one part of five.-If unto the lower pulley there were added another, then the power would be unto the weight in a fubquintuple proportion. Wilkins.

* SUBRECTOR. n. f. [sub and rector.] The rector's vicegerent.-He was chofen fubre&or of the college.

* SUBREPTION. n. f. [fubreption, Fr. fubreptus, Lat.] The act of obtaining a favour by fur prife or unfair representation. Di&.

* SUBREPTITIOUS. adj. [furreptice, French; furreptitius, Latin.] Fraudulently obtained from a fuperior, by concealing fome truth, which would have prevented the grant. Bailey.

SUBRIGUOUS, adj. [from sub and rigo, Latin, to water.] Moift, or wet underneath. Bailey. * To SUBROGATE. v. a. [ fubrogo, Lat.] See SURROGATE.

SUBROGATION, or SURROGATION, n.. in the civil law, the act of fubftituting a perlon, in the place, and entitling him to the rights of another. In its general fenfe, fubrogation implies a fucceffion of any kind, whether of a perfon to a perfon, or of a perfon to a thing.

There are two kinds of fubrogation: the one conventional, the other legal. Conventional fubrogation is a contract whereby a creditor tranf fers his debt, with all appurtenances thereof, to the profit of a third perfon. Legal fubrogation is that which the law makes in favour of a perfon who decharges an antecedent creditor; in which cafe there is a legal tranflation of all rights of the ancient creditor to the perion of the new one.

SUBROTUNDOUS, adj. in botany, [sub, and rotundus. Lstin, round.] Approaching to roundnets. Afb. SUBSCAPULARIS. See ANATOMY, 211,

N° 6.

(1.)* To SUBSCRIBE. v. a. Ju'crire, French; fubfcribo, Latin.) 1. To give confent to, by underwriting the name.-They united by subscribing a covenant, which they pretended to be no other than had been subscribed in the reign of K. James, and that his Majesty himself had fubfcribed v. Clarendon.—The reader fees the names of those perfons by whom this letter is subscribed. Addison. 2. To atteft by writing the name.-Their particular teftimony ought to be better credited, than fome other fubfcribed with an hundred hands. Whitgift. 3. To fubmit. Not ufed.—

The king gone to-night! fubfcrib'd his pow'r! Confin'd to exhibition! all is gone. Shak. (2.)* To SUBSCRIBE. v. n. 1. To give confent.-Ofius, with whole hand the Nicene creed was fet down, and framed for the whole Chriftian world to fubfcribe untɔ, so far yielded in the end, as even with the fame hand to ratify the Arians confefon. Hooker.

We will all fubfcribe to thy advice. Shak. Thou fhould't have faid, Go porter, turn the key,

All cruels elfe subscrib'd.

Shak.

So fpake much humbled Eve; but fate Subscrib'd not nature first gave higns. Milton 2. To promise a stipulated fun for the promotion of any undertaking.

*SUBSCRIBER. #. f. [from subscriptio, Lat.] z. One who fubfcribes. 2. One who contributes to any undertaking.-Every one of the party who can fpare a thing shall be a subscriber. Swift.

(1.) * SUBSCRIPTION. n.. [from subscriptio, Lat.] 1. Any thing underwritten.-The man afked, Are ye Chriftians? We answered we were; fearing the lefs because of the crofs we had feen in the subscription. Bacon. 2. Confent or attestation given by underwriting the name. 3. The act or ftate of contributing to any undertaking.

4.

Stocks and subscriptions pour on ev'ry side.

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

Submiffion; obedience. Not in use.You owe me no subscription.

Pope

Pope.

Shak.

(2.) SUBSCRIPTION, in general, fignifies the fignature put at the bottom of a letter, writing, or inftrument. In commerce, it is unfed for the share or intereft which particular perfons take in a public ftock or a trading company, by writing their names, and the fhares they require in the books or regifter thereof.

(3.) SUBSCRIPTION, to articles of faith, is reVuu 2 quired

tivating nature, and making her subserve our purpofes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy. Glanville. The memory hath no special part of the brain devoted to its own fervice, but ufes all thofe parts which subserve our fenfatione, as well as our thinking powers. Halfb.

quired of the clergy of every eftablished church,
and of fome church's not cftablished. Whether
fuch fubfcription ferves any good purpose, in a
religious or theological view, is a very doubtful
queftion. It may be neceflary in an establishment,
as a teft of loyalty to the prince, and of attach
ment to the conftitution, civil and ecciefiaftical,
but it cannot produce uniformity of opinion. As
all language is more or lefs ambiguous, it becomes
difficult, if not impoffible, to determine in what
fenfe the words of long established creeds are to
be interpreted; and we believe that the clergy of
the churches of England and Scotiand feidom
confider themiciyes as fettered by the Thirty-nine
Articles, or the Conf fan of Faith, when compof-
ing inftructions either for their respective pariflies
or for the public at large. See INDEPENDENTS.
(4.) SUBSCRIPTION, in the commerce of books,
fignifies an engagement to take a certain number
of copies of a book intended to be printed, and
a reciprocal obligation of the bookfeller or pub-
lither to deliver the faid copies on certain terms.
Thefe fubfcriptions, which had their rife in Eng-
land about the middle of the laft century, were
lately very frequent in France and Holland, and
are now very common among ourselves.

* SUBSECTION. n. J. [sub and sectio, Latin.} A fubdivision of a larger tection into a leffer. A fcction of a fection. Dig.

* SUBSECUTIVE, adj. [from subsequor.] FolJowing in train.

*

SUBSEPTUPLE. adj. [subjand septuplus, Lat.] Containing one or feven parts,-If unto this lower pully there were added another, then the power, would be to the weight in a fubquintuple proportion; if a third, a subseptuple. Wilkins.

* SUBSEQUENCE. n.j. [from subsequuor. Lat. The state of following; not precedence. By this faculty we can take notice of the order of precedence and subsequence. Grew.

*

(1.) SUBSEQUENT. adj. [subsequeat, French; subsequens, Latin. This word is improperly pronounced long in the fecond fyilable by Shakefpeare.] Following in train; not preceding.

Shak.

In fuch indexes, although fmall pricks
To their subsequent volumes, there is feen
The baby figure of the giant mais.
-The subsequent words come on before the pie-
cedent vanish. Bacon.--

Why does each confenting fign
With prudent harmony combine

In turns to move, and subsequent appear? Prior. -This article is introduced as subsequent to the treaty of Munfter, made about 164. Swift.

(2.) SUBSEQUENT means fomething that comes after another, particularly with regard to the or

[blocks in formation]

* SUBSERVIENCE. ) n. f. [from subserve.] In* SUBSERVIENCY. } ftrumental fitnels, ule, or operation.-Wicked fpirits may their cunning, carry farther in a feeming confederacy or subserviency to the defigns of a good angel. Dryden. — There is an immediate and agil subservience of the fpirits to the empire of the foul. Hale.-We cannot look upon the body, wherein appears fo much ntnefs, ute, and subserviency to infinite fuctions, any otherwife than as the effect of contrivance. Bertley. There is a regular fubordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends. Cheyne.

SUBSERVIENT. adj. [subserviens, Latin.] Subordinate; inftrumentaily ufetul.- Hammond had an incredible dexterity, fcarce, ever reading any thing which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Fell.-Under this God they worshipped many interior and subservient godé, Stilling fleet-Thefe ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray-White awake, we feel none of thofe motions continually made in difpofal of the corporeal princit les fubservient herein. Grew.-Senfe is subservient unto fancy. Grew. -They are his creatures fubordinate to him, and subservient to his will. Newton.

Moft criticks, fond of fome subservient art, Still make the whole depend upon a part. Pofe. *SUBSEXTUPLE. adj. [sub and sextuplus, Lat.] Containing one part of x.-One of these under pullies abates half of that heaviness the weight hath, and causes the power to be in a fubdupie proportion unto it, two of them a fubquadruple proportion, three a subsextuple. Wilkins.

To SUBSIDE. v. n. subfido, Lat.] To fink; to tend downwards. It is commonly used of one part of a compound, finking in the whole, Pope ufed it rather improperly.

With terrortrembled heav'n's fubfiding hill.Dryd. At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. Pope. SUBSIDENCE. ) n. . [from subside.] The * SUBSIDENCY. 5 act of linking; tendency downward.-This gradual fubfidency of the abys would take up a confiderable time. Burnet-Being determined to fubfidence merely by their different fpecifick gravities, all those which had the fame gravity fubfided at the fame time. Woodav.-Airbladders, whole furfaces are by turns freed from mutual contact, and by a fudden fubfidence meet again by the ingrefs and egrefs of the air. Arb

*SUBSIDIARY, adj. [ subsidiarie, Fr. fubfidia rius, Lat. from fubfidy.] Alliftant; brought in aid. Bitter fubftances burn the biood, and are a fost of fubfidiary gal. Arbuthnot.

(1.) * SUBSIDY. 'n. f. [ jubfidy, Fr. subfidiuny, Lat.] Aid, commonly fuch as is given in money.They with much alacrity granted a great rate of subfidy. Bacon.-'Tis all the subfidy the prefent age Cau raife. Dryden.-It is a celebrated notion of a patriot, that a houfe of commons fhould never grant

fuch

fach subfidies as give no pain to the people, left flantia, Lat.] 1. Being; fomething exifting; fome. the nation thould acquiefce under a burden they thing of which we can fay that it is.did not feel.

(2.) SUBSIDY, in law, fignifies an aid or tax granted to the king by parliament, for the necef. fary occafions of the kingdom; and is to be levied on every fubject of ability, according to the rate or value of his lands or goods: but this word, in fone of our statutes, is confounded with that of Culloms. See Tax.

(3.) SUBSIDY, in modern European politics, a large tum of money, often amounting to millions, generously thrown away by the British government to certam foreign defpets, who call themfeives our allies, to pay them for fighting their own bat tles, and who, when they get their own ends accomplished, commonly make a separate peace with the enemy, and leave us in the lurch; nay, fometimes ungratefuny join the foe against us. By fuch fubfidies, Britain often gains much glory, but the profit goes a i to her allies, while her national debt still increafes. See the hiftory of Europe for the last century or more, under ENGLAND, § 69—130, pussim.

* To SUBSIGN. v. a. { fubfigno, Lat.] To fign under. Neither have they feen any deed before the corqueft, but fubfigned with crofles and fingie ames without furnames. Camden.

* T, SUBSIST. v. n [subsister, Fr. fubfifto, Lat.] 1. To be; to have exiftence. 2. To continue; to retain the prefent ftate or condition.

Firm we fabt, but pedible to fwerve. Milt. -It was a moral impoffibility that the republick could fubfit any longer, Swift. 3. To have means of living; to be maintained.-Ripened the fruits of poetry in a cold climate; and gave me wherewithal to fubfif in the long winter which fucceeded. Dryd. -Let us remember those that want neceflaries, as we curtelves thould have defired to be remembred, had it been our fad lot to fubfift on other men's charity. Atterbury. 4. To in here; to have existence by means of fomething eife.-Though thefe qualities are fufficiently diftant, yet when they come to fubfift in particulars, and to be clothed with feveral accidents, then the difcernment is hot fo eafy. Sunth.

SUBSISTENCE, orn. f. fubfifience, Fr. from SUBSISTENCY. fubfift. 1. Real being. -In Chrift there is no nerfonal fubfiftence but ore. Hooker. We know as little how the union is diffolved, that is the chain of thefe differing fubfiftencies that compound us, as how it first commenced. Glanv.-Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of fome creatures exifting. Stilling fleet. 2. Competence; means of fupporting life.-IIis viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable fubhfience out of the plunder of his province. Addijon. 3. Inherence in fomething elfe.

SUBSISTENT. adj. Į fubfiftens, Lat.] 1. Having real being.-Such as deny fpirits fubfiftent without bodies, will with difficulty affirm the feparate existence of their own. Broaun. 2. Inherent.-Thefe qualities are not fubfilent in those bodies. Bentley.

She is a fubftance, and a perfect being.

Davies. This empyreal fubftance cannot fail. Milton. 2. That which fupports accidents.

What creatures there inhabit, of what mold, And fubftance? Milton.

Every being is confidered as fubfifting in and by itfelf, and then it is called a fubftance. Watts. 3. The effentia! part.-It will ferve our turn to comprehend the fubflance. Digby.-This edition is the fame in fubftance with the Latin. Burn.-They let you fee with one caft of the eye the fubstance of a hundred pages. Addison. 4.Something real, not imaginary; fomething folid, not empty.Shadows to-night

Have ftruck more terror to the foul of Richard, Than can the subftance of ten thousand soldiers Arm'd in proof. Shak.

He the future evil shall no lefs In apprehenfion than in subftance feel. Milton. Heroick virtue did bis actions guide, And he the subflance, not th' appearance chose. Dryden.

God has performed the subftance of what he promised. Nelson. 5. Body; corporeal nature.Between the parts of opake and coloured bodies are many fpaces, either empty or replenished with mediums of other denfities; as water between the tinging corpufcles wherewith any liquor 18 impregnated, air between the aqueous globules that conftitute clouds or mifts, and for the most part spaces void of both air and water; but yet perhaps not wholly void of all fubftance between the parts of hard bodies. Newton.-The qualities of plants are more various than those of animal subflances. Arbuthnot.--There may be a great and conitant cough while the substance of the lungs remains found. Blackmore. 6. Wealth; means of life.He hath eaten me out of houfe and home, and my fubftance into that fat belly of his. Shak.-We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhaufting our jubfiance, but not for our own intereft. Swift.

(2.) SUBSTANCE, in philofophy, is the subject to which we fuppofe qualities belong. Thus gold is the fubftance to which the qualities of ductility, yellowness, denfity, &c. belong. See METAPHYSICS, Sec. XI. § II.

(1.) * SUBSTANTIAL. adj. [fubftantielle,. Fr. from fubftance.] 1. Real; actually exifting.-If this atheift would have his chance to be a real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than vulgar. Bentley. 2. True; solid; real; not merely seeming.

O blessed! bleffed night! I am afraid,
Being in night, all this is but a dream;
Too flattering fweet to be fubflantial.
To give thee being, I lent
Out of my fide to thee, neareft my heart,
Subftantial life.

Shak.

Milton Denham.

If happiness be a substantial good, I err'd to feek it in a blind revenge.. -Time as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and fuperficial, while things more folid and fubftantial have been immerfed. (1.) * SUBSTANCE. n. f. [subslance, Fr. fub- Glanville.—The difference betwixt the empty va

SUBSIZATORES. See SIZAR.

(2.) SUBSTANTIVE. n.f. {fubftantif, Fr, fubftantivum, Lat.) A noun betokening the thing, not a quality.-Claudian perpetually clofes his fenfe at the end of a verfe, commonly called golden, or two fubftantives and two adjectives with a verb betwixt them. Dryden.

mity of oftentation, and the substantial ornaments of virtue. L'Etrange.-Obfervations are the only fure grounds whereon to build a lafting and fub tantial philofophy. Woodward.-A. folid and subftantial greatness of foul, looks down with neglect on the cenfures and applaufes of the multitude. Addifon. This ufeful, charitable, humbe employment of yourselves, is a fubßantial part of a wife and pious life. Law. 3. Corporeal; material.

Now fhine these planets with fubftantial rays? Prior. ---The fun appears flat like a plate of filver, the moon as big as the fun, and the rambow a large Subftantial arch in the sky, all which are grofs fallehoods. Watts. 4. Strong, out; buiky.Subftantial doors,

Mikon.

Crofs-barr'd fear no aflauit. 3. Refponfible; moderately wealthy; poffeffed of Substance.-Trials of crimes and tities of right shall be made by verdict of a jury, chofen out of the most subftantial freeholders. Spenser.— The merchants and most subftantial citizens cannot make up more than 100,000 families. Addis.

(2.) SUBSTANTIAL means alfo belonging to the nature of fubftance.

(3.) * SUBSTANTIALS. . . [Without fingular.} Effential parts.-Although a custom introduced against the fubftantials of an appeal be not valid, as that it should not be appealed to a fuperior, but to an inferior judge, yet a custom may be introduced against the accidentals of an appeal. Ayliffe. *SUBSTANTIALITY. #. f. [from fubftantial.] 2. The fate of real existence. 2. Corporeity; materiality.-Body cannot act on any thing but by motion; motion cannot be received but by quantity and matter: the foul is a ftranger to fuch grols fubftantiality. Glarv.

SUBSTANTIALI, Y. adv. [from substantial.] 1. In manner of a fubftance; with reality of exift

ence.

In him his Father fḥone substantially exprefs'd. Milton, 2. Strongly; folidly.-Having fo fubftantially provided for the North, they promifed themselves they should end the war that Summer. Clarendon. 3. Truly; folidly; really; with fixed purpose.The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly obferve them fubftantially religious towards God. Tillotfon. 4. With competent weaith. *SUBSTANTIALNESS. ». J. (from fubftantial.] 1. The ftate of being fubftantial. 2. Firm nefs; ftrength; power of holding or lating-Sub ftantialnefs combineth with delightfulness. Camden. -In degree of fubftantialness next above the dorique, fuftaining the third, and adorning the fecond story. Wotton.

* To SUBSTANTIATE. v. a. [from fubftance.] To make to exift.-The accidental of any act is faid to be whatever advenes to the act itself alrea. dy fubftantiated. Ayliffe.

(1.)* SUBSTANTIVE. adj. [subftantivus, Lat.] 1. Solid; depending only on itself. Not in ufe. He confidered how sufficient and fubftantive this land was to maintain itself. Bacon. 2. Betokening existence.-One is obliged to join many particulars in one propofition, becaufe the repetition of the fubftantive verb would be tedious. Arb.

(3.) SUBSTANTIVE NOUN, in grammar. See GRAMMAR, under ENGLISH LANGUAGE, P. 692. (4.) SUBSTANTIVE VERB, in grammar, a verb expreffing existence; as I am; to be; to exist. The Latin has 4 fubitantive verbs; viz. Sum, fi, forem, and existo.

* SUBSTANTIVELY. adv. [from fubftantive.] As a substantive.

SUBSTILAR, adj. in dialling, [from fub, and Stile.] under the file. Moxon mentions the fubji

lar line.

* SUBSTITUTE. n. f. [substitut, Fr. from the verb.] 1. One placed by another to act with delegated power.

Were you fworn to the duke, or to the depu ty?

-To him and his substitutes.

You've taken up,

Under the counterfeited zeal of God, The fubjects of his fubftitute, my father, And here upfwarm'd them.

Shak.

Shak.

Haft thou not made me here thy substitute, And thefe inferior far beneath me fet? Milton. Providence delegates to the fupreme magistrate the fame power for the good of men, which that fupreme magiftrate transfers to those several substi tutes who act under him. Addifon. 2. It is ufed likewife for things; as, one medicine is a fubstitute for another.

*To SUBSTITUTE. v. a. [subftituer, Fr. fubftitutus, from fub and ftatuo, Lat. To put in the place of another.-In the original defigns of fpeaking, a man can fuliftitute none for them that can equally conduce to his honour. Gov. of the Tongue.

Reject him then, and substitute another. Drd. Some few verfes are fubftituted in the room of others. Congreve.

(1.) * SUBSTITUTION. n. f. [subslitution, Fr. from fubftitute.) The act of placing any perfon or thing in the room of another; the state of being placed in the room of another.-He did believe

He was the duke, from substitution.

Shak.

Nor fal, fulphur, or mercury can be separated from any perfect metals; for every part, fo fepa rated, may easily be reduced into perfect metal without fubflitution of that which chymists imagine to be wanting. Bacon.

(2.) SUBSTITUTION, in the civil law, a difpofition of a teftament, whereby the teftator fubfti tutes one heir for another, who has only the ufu. fruit, and not the property, of the thing left him.

*T, SUBSTRACT. v. a. {subftrabo, Lat. fouAration, Fr.] 1. To take away part from the whole. 2. To take one number from another.

(1.) * SUBSTRACTION. n.f. fouftraire, feu fraction, Fr.] 1. The act of taking away part from the whole.-I cannot call this piece Tully's nor my own, being much altered not only by the change of the ftyle, but by addition and fubftrac tion. Denham. 2. (In arithmetick.] The taking of a lefler number out of a greater of like kind;

whereby

}

whereby to find out a third number, being or de- the homage made to Ferdinand II. by the Flo claring the inequality, excess, or difference be- rentine nobles. He died in 1681, aged 84. tween the numbers given. Cocker. * SUBTERRANEAL. SUBTERRANY. *SUBERRANEAN. adj. fub and (1.) SUBTERRANEOUS.) terra, Lat. fouf terainne, Fr. Subteranean or fubterraneous is the word now ufed.] Lying under the earth; below the furface.-Metals are wholly subteranny; where as plants are part above earth, and part under. Bacon.-In subterranies, as the fathers of their tribes, are brimstone and mercury. Bacon

(1.) SUBSTRACTION and SUBSTRACT certainty are or ought to be obfolete. They are a vulgar and irregular fpelling, totally unauthorised by the original Latin words, fub and trubo. It is abfurd to pretend they are derived from the French, (See To SUBTRACT,) for in that cafe they should be SOUSTRACT, and SouSTRACTION.

SUBSTRUCTION. n. n. f. \ substructio, from /ub and ftruo, Latin.] Underbuilding.-Examine the bed of earth upon which we build, and then the under fillings, or fubftruction, as the ancients called it. Wotton.

* SUBSTYLAR. adj. [sub and Aylus.) Subflytar line is, in dialing, a right line, whereon the gnomon or style of a dial is erected at right angles with the plane. Di&.-Erect the style perpendicularly over the jubilar line, so as to make an angle with the dial-plane equal to the elevation of the pole of your place. Moxon.

(1.) SUBSULPHAT. See SUB and SULPHAT. (2.) SUBSULPHAT OF POTASS. See SALT, § 1, N° 21.

(3.) SUB-SULPHAT OF QUICK-SILVER. See PHARMACY, Index.

SUBSULTIVE. SUBSULTORY. adj. [subfultus, Lat.] Bounding; moving by starts.

* SUBSULTORILY, adv. (from subfultory.] In a bounding manner; by fits; by tarts.-The Spirits fpread even, and move not subsultori5. Bacon.

*SUBSULTORY. See SUBSULTIVE.

SUBTANGENT. n.f. In any curve, is the fine which determines the interfection of the tangent in the axis prolonged. Dia.

*To SUBTEND. v. a. [jub and tendo, Lat.] To be extended under.-In rectangles and triangles the fquare, which is made of the fide that fubtendeth the right angle, is equal to the fquares which are made of the fides containing the right angle. Brown.

From Aries rightways draw a line, to end.
In the fame round, and let that line subtend
An equal triangle.
(1.) * SUBTENSE. n.f. [fub and tenfus, Lat.]
The chord of an arch.

Creech

(z.) SUBTENSE, in geometry, is a right line which is oppofite to an angle, and drawn between the two extremities of the arch which measures that angle.

*SUBTER. [Lat.] In compofition, fignifies under. SUBTERFLUENT. adj. [sabter fuo, Lat.] SUBTERFLUOUS. S Running under.

* SUBTERFUGE. n. s. subterfuge, Fr. subter and fugio, Lat. A fhift; an evasion; a trick. The king cared not for subterfuges. Bacon.-Notwithstanding all their fly subterfuges, yet the product of all their endeavours is but as the birth of the labouring mountains. Glanv.-Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument. Watts.

SUBTERMANS, Juftus, an eminent Flemish painter, born Antwerp, in 1597. He was famous for history and portraits. In the palace of F10rence, there is a celebrated painting by him, of

Mile

Subterranean wind transports a hill. Alteration proceeded from the change made in the neighbouring subterraneal parts. Boyle

Tell by what paths, what subterranean ways, Back to the fountain's head the fea conveys. The refluent rivers? Blackmore

[ocr errors]

Let my foft minutes glide obfcurely on,
Like subterraneous streams.
Norria
-This subterraneous pallage was not at first de-
figned fo much for a highway, as for a quarry,
Addison.-

Rous'd within the subterranean world;
Th' expanding earthquake unrefilted thakes
Afpiring cities. Thomson.

(2.) SUBTERANEOUS CAVERN. See QUARRIES. SUBTERRANITY. n. s. [sub and terra, Lat. A place under ground.-Not in ufe.-We com monly confider subterranities not in contempla tions fufficiently respective unto the creation. Brown.

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
« PreviousContinue »