To place in an order or rank below something else; make or consider as of less value or importance: as, to subordinate temporal to spiritual things.To make auxiliary or subservient to something else; put under control or authority; make subject.In a lower order or class; occupying a lower position in a descending scale; secondary.Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, rank, importance, etc.In law, a clause in a statute which, from its position or the nature of its substance, or especially by reason of grammatical relation as above indicated, must be deemed controlled or restrained in its meaning if it conflicts with another clause in the same statute.Synonyms Subservient, minor.n. One inferior in power, order, rank, dignity, office, etc.; one who stands in order or rank below another; often, one below and under the orders of another; in grammar, a word or clause dependent on another.