subalternate
Americanadjective
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Botany. placed singly along an axis, but tending to become grouped oppositely.
adjective
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(of leaves) having an arrangement intermediate between alternate and opposite
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following in turn
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of lesser quality or status
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of subalternate
1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin subalternātus (past participle of subalternāre to subordinate), equivalent to subaltern ( us ) subaltern + -ātus -ate 1
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But science and virtue are distinct from one another as genera which are not subalternate, as the Philosopher proves in Topic. iv.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Shrubs or trees with opposite, rarely subalternate, simple, deciduous leaves.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Now "substance" and "evidence" are different genera, and neither is subalternate to the other.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
As before, the conclusion in the constructive type resolves itself into the subalternate of the major itself, and in the destructive type into the subalternate of its contrapositive.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
One of the hens was his favourite, the others filled subalternate parts.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
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