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What does "subordinate" mean?

Subordinate: Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. South.

Additional senses

  1. 2.One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal. Milton.
  2. 3.To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
  3. 4.To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason. -- Sub*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- Sub*or"di*nate*ness, n.

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