subact

From Latin subactus, past participle of subigere (“to subdue”).

subact (third-person singular simple present subacts, present participle subacting, simple past and past participle subacted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To reduce or subdue.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. 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:

     tangible bodies have no pleasure in the consort of air , but endeavour to subact it into a more dense body

• “subact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

sub- +‎ act

subact (plural subacts)

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