Logic. (More freq. in L. form.) [ad. mod.L. subalternans, -ant-, pr. pple. of subalternāre SUBALTERN v.] See quots.
1826. Whately, Logic, Index (1827), 347. Subaltern opposition, is between a Universal and a Particular of the same Quality. Of these, the Universal is the Subalternant, and the Particular the Subalternate.
1867. Atwater, Logic, 109. In each pair of these the Universal is called the Subalternans, the Particular the Subalternate.
