[SUB- 14.] Less than dominant, not quite dominant. (See quots.)
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xlix. IV. 493. We may take Scolia for an example of a subdominant group beginning more southward.
a. 1909. Buck’s Med. Handbk., III. 260 (Cent. Dict., Supp.). Those disturbances which are dominant become focal in consciousness, or the mind is fully conscious of such. Those that are sub-dominant bring about marginal or sub-conscious psychical states.
