Subordinating ppl. a.

[-ING².] That subordinates; involving subordination. Subordinating conjunction (Gram.), one that serves to join a subordinate to a principal clause.

1753.  [see SUBORDINATED ppl. a.].

1850.  Grote, Greece, II. lxiv. VIII. 281. Constant subordinating control.

1857.  J. W. Gibbs, Philol. Studies, 116. The subordinative or subordinating proposition.

1875.  Whitney, Life Lang., xii. 241. Relatives and subordinating conjunctions are wanting.