Sub*sty"lar (?), a. Pertaining to the substyle.
Sub"style` (?), n. (Dialing) A right line on which the style, or
gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of
the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.
[Written also substile.] Hutton.
Sub*sul"phate (?), n. (Chem.) A sulphate with an excess of the base.
Sub*sul"phide (?), n. (Chem.) A nonacid compound consisting of one
equivalent of sulphur and more than one equivalent of some other body,
as a metal.
Sub*sul"tive (?), a. Subsultory. [R.] Berkley.
Sub*sul"to*ry (?), a. [L. subsilire, subsultum, to spring up; sub under
+ salire to leap.] Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.
[R.] -- Sub*sul"to*ri*ly, adv. [R.]
Flippancy opposed to solemnity, the subsultory to the continuous,
-- these are the two frequent extremities to which the French
manner betrays men.
De Quincey.
||Sub*sul"tus (?), n. [NL. See Subsultory.] (Med.) A starting,
||twitching, or convulsive motion.
Sub*sum"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being subsumed. J. B. Stallo.
Sub*sume" (?), v. t. [Pref. sub- + L. sumere to take.] To take up into
or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or
particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another
as belonging to it; to include under something else.
To subsume one proposition under another.
De Quincey.
A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous
efforts after righteousness.
W. Pater.
Sub*sump"tion (?), n. 1. The act of subsuming, or of including under
another.
The first act of consciousness was a subsumption of that of which
we were conscious under this notion.
Sir W. Hamilton.
2. That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a
syllogism.
But whether you see cause to go against the rule, or the
subsumption under the rule.
De Quincey.
Sub*sump"tive (?), a. Relating to, or containing, a subsumption.
Coleridge.
Sub*tan"gent (?), n. (Geom.) The part of the axis contained between the
ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
Sub`tar*ta"re*an (?), a. Being or living under Tartarus; infernal.
"Subtartarean powers." Pope.
Sub*tec"ta*cle (?), n. [Pref. sub- + L. tectum a roof.] A space under
a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).
Sub*teg`u*la"ne*ous (?), a. [L. subtegulaneus; sub under + tegulare
tiles for a roof.] Under the roof or eaves; within doors. [R.]
Sub*ten"ant (?), n. (Law) One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of
one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.
Sub*tend" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subtended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Subtending.] [L. subtendere; sub under + tendere to stretch, extend.
See Tend.] To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a
triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
Sub*tense" (?), n. [L. subtendere, subtentum. See Subtend, Tense, a.]
(Geom.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the
subtense of an arc.
Sub*tep"id (?), a. Slightly tepid.
Sub`te*rete" (?), a. Somewhat terete.
{ Sub*ter"flu*ent (?), Sub*ter"flu*ous (?), } a. [L. subterfluens, p.
pr. of subterfluere to flow beneath; subter under + fluere to flow.]
Running under or beneath. [R.]
Sub"ter*fuge (?), n. [F., from LL. subterfugium, fr. L. subterfugere to
flee secretly, to escape; subter under + fugere to flee. See Fugitive.]
That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice
employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify
opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an
argument.