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† subsorˈtition Obs. rare—0.
[ad. L. subsortītio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subsortīrī: see sub- 27 and sortition.]
Selection by lot to fill the place of another. So subsorˈtitiously adv.
1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 18 There being a hundred and fifty sick in the S. George, the councel ordered,..that every ship should take to nurse a couple of the sick, and subsortitiously, by lot, to supply their places with as many sound. 1656Blount Glossogr., Subsortition, a chusing by lots, after others have chosen, to fill up the number of those that before were refused. |