subalternate
English
Etymology
Adjective
subalternate (comparative more subalternate, superlative most subalternate)
- Succeeding by turns; successive.
- Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.
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- all their subalternate and several kinds
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Noun
subalternate (plural subalternates)
- (logic) A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one.
See also
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subalternate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)