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subtenant Chiefly Sc.|ˌsʌbˈtɛnənt|
Also 5 -ten(n)and, 6 -tenent, sibtennend, 6–7 -tennent, 7 -tennant.
[sub- 9 (b). In med.L. subtenens.]
One who holds of a tenant; an undertenant.
1445in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. III. 12 Twenty schillingis..to be pait to me be the Saide Androu Kere or his facturis or subtenandis. 1474in Acc. Fam. of Innes (Spalding Cl.) 81 To be haldin and had all and hale the saidis landis..to the foresaid James his airis assigneis and subtennandis for al the termis of threttein yeris. 1541Rec. Elgin (New Spalding Cl. 1903) l. 66 Tha that ar sibtennendis to the burgh for the landis of Duuellegrene. 1586in Exch. Rolls Scot. XXI. 418 Sett in assedatioun for the space of fyve yeiris..to Uthrid Makdowell of Garthland, his airis, assignais, and subtennentis. 1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. i. xix. §23. 385 Where the Sub-tennent was warned, tacite Ralocation alledged by the Sub-tennent, was not sustained without producing a standing Tack to the principal Tacks-man. 1703in M. A. Mills Stat. Laws I. of Man (1821) 175 The said Tennants and Inhabittants dwelling in and possessing those Cottages and Intacks shall henceforward become Sub⁓tennants to the said Farmers, Tennants, and other Persons. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 215 Sub⁓tenants or assignees to the leases specified in the article immediately preceding..can also vote. 1861Brougham Brit. Const. x. 136 There were smaller owners or sub-tenants, holding of the eleven thanes, as these held of the Crown.
b. fig.
1804T. Bewick Brit. Birds II. Introd. p. vi, They [sc. land birds] are the subtenants of the cultivated world. |