[SUB- 7 b.] A subordinate denomination, category, class or division.
1630. Delamain, Grammelogia, a 2 b. What denomination you give unto any of the figures, the next great division is the next subdenomination.
1763. C. Johnston, Reverie, II. 267. The mortgage affected only a very small part of his estate,… a particular subdenomination only … being named in the deeds.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), II. 291. Applying to suits of the same denomination … plans of collection altogether different, according as this or that arbitrarily allotted sub-denomination happens to have given to them.
1896. Daily News, 26 Feb., 6/3. The table gives you their sub-denominations, from an analysis of the census returns.
