subalternate

comparative more subalternate · superlative most subalternate

1. Succeeding by turns; successive.
2. Subaltern; inferior; subordinate.

   [S]uch as are Sative and Hortenſial ſubalternate to the other; [...]

   1670, John Evelyn, “. Introduction.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 2

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   To which Two Species of Tyranny as subalternate things to the Genus, the other innumerable Courses they took to extirpate and make this a desolate People, may be reduced and referr'd.

   (Can we date this quote?), Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

   Further, the same thing should not be placed in different genera. Now "substance" and "evidence" are different genera, and neither is subalternate to the other. Therefore it is unfitting to state that faith is both "substance" and "evidence."

   1917, Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologiae, Second Part of the Second Part/Question 4

plural subalternates

1. human sciencesA particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one.