[SUB- 6. Cf. F. sous-préfet.] An assistant or deputy prefect; spec. an administrative official of a department of France immediately subordinate to the prefect; the administrator of a province of Peru.
1845. W. K. Kelly, trans. L. Blanc’s Hist. Ten Y., II. 175. The préfects, the sub-préfects, and the mayors.
1852. Sharpe, Hist. Egypt, xxi. Every deputy tax-gatherer, Every prefect, every sub-prefect.
1880. C. R. Markham, Peruv. Bark, 125. The Sub-prefect, Don Pablo Pimentel.
1899. R. Kipling, Stalky & Co., 137. We aren’t even sub-prefects.
Hence Subprefectorial a. [cf. F. sous-préfectoral], pertaining to a subprefect or subprefecture; Subprefecture [cf. F. sous-préfecture], the office or position of a subprefect, a division of a prefecture.
1837. Penny Cycl., IX. 105/2. (Doubs) The department is divided into four arrondissemens or sub-prefectures.
1870. Illustr. Lond. News, 29 Oct., 438. Making of the five Roman provinces one only, with five sub-prefectures.
1879. Stevenson, Trav. Donkey, 183. The subprefectorial map was fetched from the subprefecture itself.
