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Subordinate \Sub*or"di*nate\, n.
One who stands in order or rank below another; --
distinguished from a principal. --Milton.
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Subordinate \Sub*or"di*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Subordinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Subordinating}.]
1. 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.
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2. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate
the passions to reason.
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{Sub*or"di*nate*ness}, n.
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Subordinate \Sub*or"di*nate\, a. [Pref. sub L. ordinatus, p.
p. of ordinare to set in order, to arrange. See {Ordain}.]
1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower
or inferior position.
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The several kinds and subordinate species of each
are easily distinguished. --Woodward.
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2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or
the like.
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It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the
understanding. --South.
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Dependent \De*pend"ent\, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr.
dependere. See {Depend}, and cf. {Dependant}.]
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
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2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not
able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything,
without the will, power, or aid of something else; not
self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon;
as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of
{independent}. [Narrower terms: {interdependent,
mutualist, mutually beneficial}; {parasitic, parasitical,
leechlike, bloodsucking}; {subordinate}; {underage};
{myrmecophilous}; {symbiotic}] Also See: {unfree}.
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England, long dependent and degraded, was again a
power of the first rank. --Macaulay.
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3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of
{unconditional}.

Syn: qualified.
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4. addicted to drugs.

Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
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{Dependent covenant} or {Dependent contract} (Law), one not
binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.

{Dependent variable} (Math.), a varying quantity whose
changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by
changes in another variable, which is called the
{independent variable}.
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