a1629 T. Goffe (1656) i. i. 14 It awes Not mortalls only, but makes other powers Sub-Deities to thine.
1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes I. 44 Some of the epithets applied to this sub-deity [sc. Phales].
1997 T. Pynchon 628 Dress'd as a Chinese Sub-Deity.