Obs. exc. Hist. [SUB- 6.] An assistant preceptor or instructor. Hence Sub-preceptorial a.
1698. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), IV. 406. The bishop of Salisbury, his preceptor, 1200£ per ann.; and Dr. Willis, his subpreceptor, 400£.
1755. [see SUBGOVERNOR].
1827. Gentl. Mag., XCVII. II. 6. He had … been Sub-preceptor to his present Majesty, then Prince of Wales, and to the Duke of York.
1847. Medwin, Shelley, II. 221. Sub-preceptor to the Princess Charlotte. Ibid. To relieve him from his sub-preceptorial duties.
