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ˌsub-lieuˈtenant
[sub- 6. Cf. F. sous-lieutenant.]
1. An army officer ranking next to a lieutenant; formerly, an officer in certain regiments of the British Army, corresponding to the ensign in others.
1702–11Milit. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) i, Sub-Brigadier, Sub-Lieutenant, and the like, are Under-Officers appointed for the Ease of those over them of the same Denomination. Sub-Lieutenants of Foot take their Post at the Head of the Pikes. 1730Bailey (folio), Sub-lieutenant, an Officer in Regiments of Fusileers, where there are no Ensigns. 1736Milit. Hist. Pr. Eugene & Marlb. I. 111 A Sub-Lieutenant of the Grenadiers of Geschwind. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vii. vii, A patriotic Sub-lieutenant set a pistol to his ear.
2. An officer in the British Navy ranking next below a lieutenant. Formerly called mate.
1804Naval Chron. XII. 510 A new Class of Officers, to be called Sub-Lieutenants, are to be appointed, selected from Midshipmen who have served their time. 1869Times 15 Oct., That every midshipman or sub-lieutenant, on returning from his first long cruise, should pass not less than a year in a place of naval study. 1898Kipling Fleet in Being ii, By the time he has reached his majority a Sub-Lieutenant should have seen enough to sober Ulysses.
Hence sub-lieuˈtenancy, the position or rank of a sub-lieutenant.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. ii. ii, To such height of Sub-lieutenancy has he now got promoted, from Brienne School. 1893F. F. Moore I Forbid Banns liv, Charlie Barham passed a creditable examination for a sub-lieutenancy. |