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Adjective

subjacent (comparative more subjacent, superlative most subjacent)

  • Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
    • ✤ In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]1
    • ✤ Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies.2
    • ✤ [in relation to the second floor flat in a tenement building] the subjacent first floor and ground floor flats were… owned by the first defenders.3

Etymology

From Latin subiaceō (“lie beneath”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /sʌbˈdʒeɪsənt/

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126: ↩

  2. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 194–5: ↩

  3. 2002, Scottish Court of Session, Anderson v. Express Investment Company Ltd.: ↩

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