subordern.
/ˈsʌbˌɔːdə/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌɔrdər/ 1. gen. A subdivision of an order; a subsidiary order.
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1705 W. Jameson Cyprianus Isotimus iv. 356 The Church was entrusted with Power to divide either of these Orders into diverse Degrees or Sub-orders.
1832 Morning Watch Dec. 331 They will learn to separate the Persons of the Godhead, and not honour them in their Unity, and in their order and sub-order.
1862 Census of Scotl. 1861 (Scotl. Census Office) p. xlii The Sixth Order of the Industrial Class contains 14 Sub-Orders, viz.: 1. Miners; 2. Workers and dealers in coal; [etc.].
1916 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 10 June 374/3 The latter were classed as a sub-order of subconscious processes.
1983 World Lit. Today 57 510/1 Even a suborder of authority such as the paternal is seen here as complementing the satisfaction that Schindler derived from being the dominant male in his relations with women.
2011 Newsweek (Nexis) 12 Sept. All such Muslim religious suborders—even the Dervishes for a while—were closed down by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the 1920s.
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a. Biology. A subdivision of an order (order n. 11a); a taxonomic category ranking below order and above superfamily or family; a group of this rank.In former botanical use, a subdivision of a Natural Order (equivalent to a subfamily).
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1806 Med. Repository 2nd Hexade 4 160 The first sub-order, or holobranches apodes, is divided into two families.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 411 The order contains two families, or rather sub-orders,..Brachyura (short tailed) and Macroura or Macrura (long tailed).
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. i. 398 While all the above genera belong to the order Compositæ, they are at the same time placed in three different sub-orders.
1898 Guide Galleries Mammalia Dept. Zool. Brit. Mus. (ed. 6) 11 Man, Apes, and Monkeys constitute the suborder Anthropoidea.
1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) i. 1 All the leguminous forage plants cultivated in the British Isles belong to a sub-order of the Family, or Natural Order, Leguminosæ, called the Papilionaceæ.
1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 510 From Meganisopteran ancestors there probably evolved a further two extinct suborders of dragonflies.
2002 Molecular Phylogenetics & Evol. 22 101 Most traditional classifications identify Ischnocera as a major suborder of lice in the order Phthiraptera.
b. A subdivision of an order in a formal system of classification of non-living things (in later use esp. soils).
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1816 London Med. Repository 6 5 Synovial cysts..constitute the second genus of a sub-order.
1834 G. H. Weatherhead New Synopsis Nosol. 14 Diseases classed under the first sub-order of the Membranacei, or those affecting the external membranous or tegumentary tissues.
1842 D. B. Smith Princ. Chem. (ed. 2) 161 Sub-order Second. The Metallic Oxides.
1874 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 427/1 Medicine has much advanced since she has freed herself from the old conception of diseases being independent entities, admitting of classification and of being labelled into orders and suborders.
1887 Canad. Rec. Sci. II. 118 The native combustible carbons and hydrocarbonaceous bodies are included in a single order... This is divided into two suborders.
1949 C. E. Kellogg in Techn. Communications Commonw. Bureau Soil Sci. No. 46. 79 The word ‘Latosol’ has been proposed as the name for this group at the categorical level of suborder.
1979 J. L. Clayton et al. Soil & Bedrock Properties 27 The common orders and suborders of soils that have been mapped in the Idaho batholith.
2000 J. Gerrard Fund. Soils v. 108/1 The suborder orthods..are the common spodosols.
3. Architecture. In Gothic and Romanesque architecture: a secondary or subordinate order in a structure of arches. Cf. order n. 3c.
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1890 C. H. Moore Devel. & Char. Gothic Archit. vi. 236 The hollow which is given to the soffit of the sub-order of the pier arcade in the nave of Malmesbury Abbey.
1912 C. H. Moore Mediæval Church Archit. Eng. xi. 222 Its arcade consists of a pair of arches of several orders in each bay,with a sub-order of two arches under each of the principal ones.
1965 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 24 223/1 In the side chapels columns..also appear but corresponding there to the suborder of the nave arcade.
1990 Jrnl. Brit. Archæol. Assoc. 143 60 In Bau II it was intended to subdivide the giant arcades and set sub-orders on the ground-floor level.
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suborderv.
/ˈsʌbˌɔːdə/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌɔrdər/ transitive. To make subordinate to; (also) to place in or divide into secondary or subordinate orders; to assign to a suborder. Frequently in passive.
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1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick i. 85 Of the sub-ordering is, which resolveth the general into the specials that are subordered or subjected thereto, as to divide Animal into man and beast.
1888 R. Rother Chem. of Pharmacy i. xiv. Heavy metals are also sub-ordered into simply metals, and heavy metals in the restricted sense.
1894 Month Feb. 188 The mineral formation co-ordered in every molecule and atom to its own prosperous condition, is duly subordered to the well-being of the higher vegetable kingdom which supervenes upon it.
1954 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 19 23 An ɛ-expression is of rank 1 if no ɛ-expression is subordered to it.
1972 I. H. Light Ethnic Enterprise in Amer. vi. 105 Negro life in the South offered no basis for subordering the migrant communities in the North along regional lines as the Oriental communities were ordered.
1994 Language 70 638 Speakers born in the same year are randomly ordered relative to one another unless I happen also to know the month of birth for each, in which case they are appropriately subordered.
2010 O: Oprah Mag. (Nexis) Mar. 142 Floor-to-ceiling shelves will be organized by genre, then sub-ordered alphabetically by artist's name, from earliest release date to latest.
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