nonce-wd. [f. SUB- 19 + L. vir man + -ATE4.] One whose manhood is imperfect. (Used jocularly as if the name of a chemical salt.)
1861. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. Life, Wks. 1891, VIII. 9. Even these poor New England Brahmins of ours, subvirates of an organizable base as they often are, count as full men.
