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The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.

other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection. Natural creature having a local subordination. Holyday.

se of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion. Foul subornation is predominant. Shak. The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy. De Quinsey.

Derision; mockery. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of writing the name under something, as for attestation. [R.] Shelton.

Excessive, or more than normal, excitation.

The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.

The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. Fuller.

The sowing of seed over seed previously sown. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

The act or state of lying with the face upward. Opposed to Ant: pronation.

, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

The act of swimming over. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of weighing. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.

Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.

The act or process of voiding urine; micturition.

The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.

ediction; prophecy. It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor.

The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.