Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a subordinate manner; in a lower order, class, rank, or dignity; as of inferior importance.
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- adverb In a
subordinate way.
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Examples
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This word, used in the text to translate the Latin administrative, means subordinately, that is, performed by a minister, who is a servant.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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He was ready to retain local governments wherever they could be “subordinately useful.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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He was ready to retain local governments wherever they could be “subordinately useful.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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He was ready to retain local governments wherever they could be “subordinately useful.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The fact is, that all our grand criminals who have been at the head of government, and those also who have subordinately shared in authority, not only never believed that they received God down their throats, but never believed in God at all; at least they had entirely effaced such an idea from their minds.
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But Shakespeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given; no veins, no curiosities; no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is he: he has no discoverable egotism: the great he tells greatly; the small subordinately.
Representative Men 2006
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The whole of the executive branch acts subordinately to the command of the President in the administration of federal laws, so long as they act within the terms of those laws.
Republicans speak out forcefully for the rule of law Glenn Greenwald 2005
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The whole of the executive branch acts subordinately to the command of the President in the administration of federal laws, so long as they act within the terms of those laws.
Archive 2005-12-01 Glenn Greenwald 2005
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As the law (if I may so speak) of physicians and masters of corporal exercises potentially comprehends particular and special things within the general; so the law of Nature, determining first and principally general matters, secondarily and subordinately determines such as are particular.
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If you think of religion in this way, and bear in mind that its aims are extremely practical and only subordinately theoretical, it will seem to you worthy of the highest respect.
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