[f. SUB- 7 + SECTION.] A division of a section.
1621. Burton (title), The Anatomy of Melancholy,… in Three Maine Partitions, with their seuerall Sections, Members, and Svbsections. Ibid., I. i. II. ix. In the precedent Subsections, I haue anatomised those inferiour Faculties of the Soule.
1841. De Quincey, Style, Wks. 1859, XI. 228. Others who bring an occasional acuteness … to this or that subsection of their duty.
1863. C. C. Blake, in Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. (1865), III. I. 5. A valuable … paper was read in subsection D [of the British Association], by Dr. Embleton.
1879. Encycl. Brit., X. 242/1. The behaviour of the lava as it issues and flows down the volcanic cones will be described in the next sub-section.
1885. Act 48 & 49. Vict., c. 70 § 8. Subsection one of section fifteen of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1883.
b. Nat. Hist. A subordinate division of a section or group.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 414. In this subsection the Diptera, Libellulina and Mantidæ will find their place.
1826. [see SUDORDER 1].
1840. Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 415. Latreille divides this section [sc. Trigona] into sub-sections.
c. Milit. (See quot.)
1910. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 11), II. 690/1. Each section [of a battery] … consists of two sub-sections, each comprising one gun and its wagons, men and horses.
Hence Subsectioned, divided into subsections.
1820. Keats, Cap & Bells, xi. With special strictures on the horrid crime, (Section’d and subsection’d with learning sage).
