subordinate's Usage Examples:

He skilfully contends that Christians who worship the self-existent God cannot justly be called less religious than those who worship subordinate deities, and concludes by vindicating the Godhead of Christ.

Pales plays a very subordinate part in the religion of Rome, even the sex of the divinity being uncertain.

IThe artists of this school show also much skill in using enamels for the purposes of subordinate decorationsuspending enamelled butterflies, birds or floral sprays, among the reticulations of a silver vase chiselled a jour; or filling with translucid enamels parts of a decorative scheme sculptured in iron, silver, gold or shakudo.

His extreme impecuniosity made him from the first subservient to the Polish senate and nobles (szlachta), who deprived him of the control of the mint - then one of the most lucrative sources of revenue of the Polish kings - curtailed his prerogative, and generally endeavoured to reduce him to a subordinate position.

The procedure of the courts which had cognizance of the matter was, however, by no means strict, and the judges and subordinate officials were often not ill-disposed towards Christians, so that evasion was fairly easy.

In 1814 Harrison received no active assignments to service, and on this account and because the secretary of war (John Armstrong) issued an order to one of Harrison's subordinates without consulting him, he resigned his commission.

The other members of the group are relative and dependent, and only to be understood as in various degrees subordinate to the primitive conception.

rightly subordinated to the main task to be accomplished.

Her directness and pure courage-- there was no other word for her insubordinate address!-- amazed him.

At Beer-lahai-roi an El ("god") appeared to Hagar, whence the name of her child Ishmael; but the writer prefers the unambiguous proper name Yahweh, and, what is more, the divine being is now Yahweh's angel - the Almighty's subordinate (xvi.

The behaviour on liquefaction, however, seemed to prove that in the latter case either the proportion of the subordinate constituents was small, or else that the various constituents were but little contrasted.

found himself subordinated to Pippins two grandsons, who, being minccrs, were under the wardship of their grandmother Plectrude.

Synonyms:

second fiddle, second banana, help, associate, underling, cog, bottom dog, helper, assistant, subsidiary, man, foot soldier, supporter,

Antonyms:

dissociate, nonmember, foe, disjoin, captor,