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subter-, prefix|ˈsʌbtə(r)|
repr. L. subter- = the adv. and prep. subter below, underneath, used in composition = (1) below, beneath; (a) advb. as in subterfluĕre to flow beneath (see subterfluous), (b) prep. as in subtercutāneus lying under the skin (cutis); = (2) secretly, as in subterfugĕre to flee secretly (see subterfuge); and, in some rare Eng. compounds, = (3) lower or less than (cf. sub- 14). The following are instances either of little-used adoptions of L. compounds or mere nonce-words (in some cases suggested by antithesis to compounds of super-).
subteˈrannuating vbl. n., the placing of an event later than its actual date. subter-ˈbrutish a., lower than (that of) the brutes. ˌsubter-ceˈlestial a., below the heavens. subter-ˈconscious a. = subconscious. † subterˈcubant [L. cubāre to lie down] (meaning unknown). ˌsubtercuˈtaneous [L. -eus] = subcutaneous. subterˈduction [cf. L. subterdūcĕre], a carrying away secretly. ˌsubtereroˈgation, the performance of less than is required. ˌsubtereˈtherial a., subaerial. † subterˈfluent, † subˈterfluous adjs., flowing underneath. subterˈhuman a., below what is human. subterˈjacent a. [L. subterjacēre], underlying, subjacent. ˌsubterlapˈsarian [properly *subtersublapsarian] a., pertaining to a view of redemption which conceived a sufficiency of grace for all, but a positive decree to save restricted to some. ˈsubtermarine, one who works under the sea. subterˈsensual, -ˈsensuous adjs., = subsensual, -sensuous. ˌsubtersuˈperlative, a degree lower than that expressed by an ordinary superlative of inferiority. ˈsubterˌsurface a., lying below the surface, subsurface.
1656Heylin Extraneus Vapulans 102 The superannuating in the business of the Councel of Dort, (a *subterannuating call'd in the true sense of the thing).
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. viii, O *subter-brutish! vile! most vile!
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 253 By the Fiat of the Almighty the *subter-celestial waters were separated from the super⁓celestial.
1856Bagehot Biogr. Studies (1880) 15 There is a kind of eruption of ideas from a *subter-conscious world.
1597Harvey Trimming of Nashe Wks. (Grosart) III. 69 The..grand Commander of all the superrants & *subtercubants of Englands great Metropolis.
1748tr. Vegetius Renatus' Distemper of Horses 9 There are seven Species of this Maul: The moist, the dry, the *subtercutaneous, the articular [etc.].
1656Blount Glossogr., *Subterduction, a private stealing or leading away.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 346 It is certaine that Supererogation there can be none, though praetererogation we should graunt you, howbeit *subtererogation were the fitter word.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies iii. iii. 456 The *Subter-ætherial Globe.
1755Johnson, *Subterfluent, running under.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Subterfluous, which runs or flows under.
1833Carlyle Misc. Ess., Cagliostro (1888) 88 He were no man but some other kind of creature, superhuman or *subter⁓human. 1839J. Sterling Ess., etc. (1848) I. 264 The universe presents itself to them as a conflux of forces, subter⁓human, human, and superhuman.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 25/2 As then not parte of the corrosive fall on any of the *subteriacent partes. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. III. 29 A delightful prospect over the subter⁓jacent plain.
1893Fairbairn Christ Mod. Theol. i. viii. 173 The *Subterlapsarian School, which had hypothetical universalism as its note.
1891Meredith One of our Conq. xxvi, A diver's wreck, where an armoured livid *subter⁓marine, a monstrous puff-ball of man, wandered seriously light in heaviness.
1885― Diana III. xii. 219 To pursue the thing would be to enter the *subtersensual perfumed caverns of a Romance of Fashionable Life.
1878P. W. Wyatt Hardrada 43 Sailing on one vast *subtersensuous greed Their smuggling life-craft ply.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 271 The Apostles words of himself, who am lesse than the least of all saints... As I may say, a *subter-subterlative [sic] in his humility. 1659― App. Inj. Innoc. iii. 18 Because he was Ελαχισ[τ]ότερος, (and if there be a more subter⁓superlative) the least of the least of his brethren.
1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 322 He never fails to sink to the *subter⁓surface level of Joseph Hume. |