The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subordinate \Sub*or"di*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subordinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Subordinating.]
To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason. [1913 Webster] -- Sub*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- Sub*or"di*nate*ness, n.
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vb. (en-past of: subordinate)
Usage examples of "subordinated".
It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever.
Man’s mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God.
Man’s mind, say the mystics of muscle, must be subordinated to the will of Society.
And, looking farther ahead, he supposed there was a danger that a Mars program would keep NASA a single-issue Agency, everything subordinated to one goal, just as in the days of Apollo.
Unmanned projects had been subordinated to the needs of the Mars mission or cut altogether.
Space initiatives which might have done some good down on Earth—science projects, Earth resources studies—had all been subordinated to the operational needs of the manned missions.
The dominant ethics of mankind's history were variants of the altruist-collectivist doctrine which subordinated the individual to some higher authority, either mystical or social.
His children turned their heads and shifted on their feet with the cold, while Cathy kept her eyes on them, worrying as her husband did about the exposure to the cold, but caught in a situation where even parental concerns were subordinated to something else.
Those were real people, and their personal grief was being subordinated to the needs of the country.
The real duties of the office were difficult enough, and those were almost always subordinated to what was little more than public relations, albeit a necessary function in a democracy, in which the people needed to see the President doing more than sitting at his desk and doing .
Nevertheless, he resolutely subordinated his thoughts and desires to this dream, adapting himself to it and identifying himself with it more and more competely.
If we represent everything by means of pure concepts of the understanding only, and without the conditions of sensuous intuition, we might really say that of everything given as conditioned the whole series also of conditions, subordinated to each other, is given, for the conditioned is given through the conditions only.
The same applies to the series of causes, one being prior to the other, and to the series leading from conditioned to unconditioned necessary existence, which can never be regarded either by itself finite in its totality or infinite, because, as a series of subordinated representations, it forms a dynamical regressus only, and cannot exist prior to it, by itself, as a self-subsistent series of things.
Now that there was a favourable prospect of concord, he subordinated all military projects to the task of bringing the patricians and the plebs into union at the earliest possible moment.
On the contrary, he subordinated his private grievances to the interests of the State, and without uttering a single word which could reflect on the consuls, he proposed to the people a measure providing that the magistrates of the plebs should be elected by the Assembly of the Tribes.