Lexicographical Neighbors of Subjacency
Literary usage of Subjacency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of Their by Samuel Hibbert (1822)
"... that in the case of an unstratified rock, which is actually imbedded among
strata, no notions of superposition or subjacency can possibly apply. ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see SUPERIOR. inferiority, n. 1. Referring to position IK place:
subjacency (rare). 2. Referring to rank, quality, etc. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"An abbreviation of subjunctive. subjacency (sub-ja'sen-si), ?i. [< sul>jacen(t)
+ -cy.J The state of being subjacent. subjacent (sub-ja'sent), a. and n. ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1877)
"The subjacency is the ignorance, lowness, want, foulness of habitation, inferiority
of manners, morals, and education, in the principality. ..."
5. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (1820)
"From all these anomalous circumstances, it seems very evident, that the terms
Superimposition and subjacency, may lead to very erroneous notions in regard ..."
6. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1884)
"... but which may be stratified sandstone completely indurated, and in great
measure divested of its stratification by the subjacency of granite, ..."
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