Of an official: Second in rank or status. Of a judge: Not chief or principal; = puisne, adj. 1b.

Belonging to a lower rank, grade, class, or order, and hence governed by or under the authority of one… Of a person or group of people.

An inferior, a subordinate; a person of no significance. Now archaic and rare.

Inferior; subordinate.

Born later; younger; junior (in appointment, etc.). Cf. puny, adj. 1. Obsolete.

Of less standing or more recent appointment; of lower position, in a class, rank, profession, etc.