A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1456-1490, 1653-1681
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Subordinate, Subordynate, adj. [e.m.E. subordinate (1588), med. L. subordinat-, p.p. stem of subordinare (c1343 in Latham).] Lesser or inferior in rank, status or importance. a. Of persons, their position or the power they wield. Also transf. b. Of things, as agents of a higher power.a. 1456 Hay I 66/8.
Quhen the principale lord … cummys, all jurisdictioun of jugis subordynate cessis 1456 Hay I 151/21.
He makis sum curatis … sum persounis, sum denys [etc.] … And ilk ane to be till othir subordinate and to be all governyt in unitee 1456 Hay II 1/14.
As kingis and princis has dominacioun and seignoury here apon all knychtis sa suld knychtis have dominacioun and seignourye subordinate … apon the small peple 1456 Hay II 20/33.
And be caus that the emperour may nocht mak na governe all knychtis, thare was ordanyt kingis tobe subordinate personis next efter emperouris, to governe realmes and contreis 1681 Stair Inst. ii iii § 63.
The jurisdiction of all barons and freeholders was of old subordinate to the sheriffs, and other judges ordinary, within whose jurisdiction the lands lay 1653 Binning Wks. 49.
Stand no longer before that bar, for it is a subordinate judicatory; there is a way to redress thee by a higher court of gracetransf. 1490 Irland Mir. III 87/21.
We se in the man mony poweris and greis of perfeccioun and the les perfeccioun is euir subordinat and seruis to the mar and hier & ordand for it as the power vigitatiue to the sensitiue and the sensitiue to the intellectiueb. 1456 Hay I 76/30.
For the hevynnis, be thair instrumentis subordinatis, sendis thair constellacionis and influencis
