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To be subservient or subordinate; to serve in an inferior capacity. Not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command. Milton.

ted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray. Their temporal ambition was wholl…

A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York. [U. S.]

A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.

A subordinate worker or helper. South.

A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

A little or subordinate thesis; a proposition.

Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior. He to grace his tributary gods. Milton.

The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; - - used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, to reduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep in subjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection. 1 Cor. ix. 27…

Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.

A subordinate actor.

A subordinate agent.

A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

A subordinate party or faction.

An inferior or subordinate faculty.

A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.

A subordinate or dependent kingdom. Tennyson.

An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.