[SUB- 5.] A subordinate or secondary element.
1846. Poe, N. P. Willis, Wks. 1864, III. 31. In addition to the element of novelty, there is introduced the sub-element of unexpectedness.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 1396. The good element … is God; and his personality comprises five spiritual and five material sub-elements.
