subaction
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Compare Latin subactio a working up, discipline.
Noun edit
subaction (plural subactions)
- (obsolete) The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies completely.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- there are of concoction two periods ; the one assimilation , or absolute conversion and subaction ; the other maturation
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
subaction (plural subactions)
- An action that makes up part of a more complex action.
- 2012, Timothy O'Connor, Constantine Sandis, A Companion to the Philosophy of Action:
- This is so because efforts, exertions, and endeavorings, if they were to exist, would need to be actions themselves, or parts of actions, or subactions or behaviors of some sort […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subaction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)