Word Meanings - SUBCONSTELLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.

SUBORDINATE
1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
CONSTELLATION
1. A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
INSUBORDINATE
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
SUBCONSTELLATION
A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.