Meanings
- imperative onlyobsoleteMentally supply (something which has not been expressed); scilicet.
the grass is always greener [subaudi on the other side of the fence] — other circumstances seem more desirable than one’s own, but in reality are often not
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That sole remaining sense is, “the bed (let it) be undefiled;” subaudite ἔστω in the verse is, “Let marriage be honourable in all” (men or things), “and the bed be undefiled; but (or for) whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
1852, Theophylact [pseud.], “Marriage of Ecclesiastics” in Notes and Queries IV:cix, page 428The Czar…expressed his intention to go on fighting for the honour of Russia, “and the command of the waters of the Pacific Ocean, so urgently necessary for the consolidation of the peaceful prosperity not only of Russia, but of other Christian nations” (? subaudite Germany).
1905, The Spectator, XCIV, page 355Synonyms: subaudite
- not comparableBy or relying upon mental suppletion.
By the ‘watchers’ are intended subaudité the guardians of the composer.
1907, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, page 51 more example
We ought not to say that a scorn of popular favour betrays itself — as if subaudite — in these deliverances of a message from the Almighty; yet it is almost so.
1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 54
- not comparableMentally supplied.
His aim is to give to the ordinary English reader, who has a reasonable interest in ‘Literature and Life’ — to which in Scotland ‘Philosophy’ is a subaudite third term, always implied and quickly felt — an account of Stoicism.
1908, Journal of Theological Studies, IX, page 619
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verbMentally supply (something which has not been expressed); scilicet.
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