a. [SUB- 14.] Less than elementary, not quite elementary.
1626. Donne, Serm., lxxx. (1640), 823. In the Elements themselves, of which all sub-elementary things are composed.
a. 1835. MacCulloch, Attributes (1837), II. 417. Disintegrated into those modes of elementary or subelementary matter whence it was first constructed.
