subordinativeadj.
/səˈbɔːdᵻnətɪv/, /səˈbɔːdn̩ətɪv/, U.S. /səˈbɔrdn̩ədɪv/ 1. Tending to subordinate; that causes or involves subordination. rare before 19th cent.
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [adjective]
mastering1590
subduing1608
subjectionala1617
subordinatinga1635
subordinative1642
captivating1675
taming1697
subjecting1760
mancipating1819
1642 C. Herle Fuller Answer to Dr. Ferne 3 Englands is not a simply subordinative, and absolute, but a Coordinative, and mixt Monarchy.
1834 Jrnl. 18th Ann. Convent. Protestant Episcopal Church N. Carolina 17 The holy and subordinative principles of godly living.
1878 Mind 3 331 This element of the Sublime is itself ultimately resolvable into the same admiration for superior force..in alliance with the subordinative sentiment.
1941 Ethics 52 20 We have..a law of entirely subordinative character, which represents, from the jural point of view, the subjugation of social law.
1988 R. L. Heilbroner Behind Veil of Econ. iv. 100 What is at stake is not a society without striving and effort but a society without submissive striving, without subordinative effort.
2006 A. N. Ancheta Race, Rights, & Asian Amer. Experience (ed. 2) vii. 155 Political hostility..included the enactment of subordinative legislation.
2. Grammar. Containing or introducing a subordinate clause or clauses.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [adjective] > subordinating or subordinated
subordinative1830
hypotactic1896
embedded1961
1830 C. F. Becker Gram. German Lang. viii. 171 The conjunctions which express a connection of this description (that, who, before) may be termed subordinative conjunctions.
1857 J. W. Gibbs Philol. Stud. 116 The subordinative proposition is not to be regarded as a composition of already existing parts to a whole, but as a development from the simple proposition.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xiv. 235 One can..distinguish..determinative (attributive or subordinative) compounds (Sanskrit tatpurusha).
1991 Lang. in Society 20 568 Interviewers make the introduction less subordinative in order to make it easier to understand by ear.
2009 L. Stassen Predicative Possession 361 The subordinative mood in Central Alaskan Yupik..can only occur in same-subject clause chains.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1642