[f. SUBDUE v. + -AL.]

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  1.  The act of subduing or state of being subdued; subjection.

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1675.  Burthogge, Causa Dei, 227. The Castigation and subdual of the affections.

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1741–65.  Warburton, Div. Legat., v. iv. Wks. 1788, III. 139. Mahomet’s work was not like Moses’s, the subdual of a small tract of Country.

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1864.  Pusey, Lect. Daniel, ii. (1866), 79. Permanent subdual distinguished the Roman Empire. Other Empires swept over like a tornado.

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1882.  H. S. Holland, Logic & Life (1885), 45. We are shut out from understanding this subdual which is belief.

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1904.  Archæol. Æliana, XXV. II. 147. Their subdual lasted several years.

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  2.  A becoming subdued or moderate. rare.

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1884.  J. Tait, Mind in Matter, 72. In autumn, with the subdual of heat, there is annually, in Canada, a transformation of nature.

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