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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Being under the feet.

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  • adjective obsolete Being under the feet.

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  • adjective obsolete Beneath the feet.

Etymologies

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sub- + Latin pes, pedis, a foot: compare Latin suppedaneum a footstool.

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  • (adjective) - (1) Being under the feet; from Latin pes, the foot.

    --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c.1850

    (2) Applied to a mountain lying at the foot of another.

    --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1919

    January 16, 2018