a. [f. L. subdīvīs-, pa. ppl. stem of subdīvidĕre to SUBDIVIDE + -IVE.] Resulting from subdivision.
1838. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xxv. (1860), II. 23. When a whole is divided into its parts, these parts may … be themselves still connected multiplicities; and if these are again divided, there results a subdivision (subdivisio), the several parts of which are called the subdivisive members (membra subdividentia).
