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subaction en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Compare Latin subactio a working up, discipline.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) The act of reducing to any state, such as of mixing two bodies completely.
   • the whole masse of spawne may also bee imbibed by bole or frankincense or minium or cerusse incorporated by agitation or subaction. a. 1682, Thomas Browne, Observations on frogs:
   • there are of concoction two periods ; the one assimilation , or absolute conversion and subaction ; the other maturation 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

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subaction en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From sub- + action.

Meanings

1. An action that makes up part of a more complex 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 […] 2012, Timothy O'Connor, Constantine Sandis, A Companion to the Philosophy of Action:

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