All 9 Uses
subordinate
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Selected Essays
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- [30] Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated†
Chpt 1. *
- Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential.†
Chpt 1.
- [241] The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating everything to the new terminology, as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby†
Chpt 3.
- The attractions of this subject are not to be resisted, and I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit, to speak of that select and sacred relation which is a kind of absolute, and which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common, so much is this purer, and nothing is so much divine.†
Chpt 4.
- I may easily go into a great household where there is much substance, excellent provision for comfort, luxury, and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon,[414] who shall subordinate these appendages.†
Chpt 6.
- Sculpture in Egypt, and in Greece, grew up in subordination to architecture.†
Chpt 9.
- But Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given; no veins, no curiosities: no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is he: he has no discoverable egotism: the great he tells greatly; the small, subordinately.†
Chpt 9.
- His means are as admirable as his ends; every subordinate invention, by which he helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.†
Chpt 9.
- This recognition once made,—the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.†
Chpt 10.
Definitions:
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(1)
(subordinate) less important or subservient; or to rank as such
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)