[SUB- 7 b.] A committee formed from and acting under a main committee; a part of a committee appointed for special purposes.
1610. in Crt. & Times Jas. I. (1848), I. 113. This day a sub-committee is appointed to consider [etc.].
1621. Elsing, Debates Ho. Lords (Camden), 98. Referred to the Sub-comittees of the priviledges.
1666. Pepys, Diary, 5 Oct. The Sub-committee have made their report to the Grand Committee.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 4. By acting as a sort of sub-committee in England for extending the principles of the National Assembly.
1823. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1830), IV. 376. The committee of five met; no such thing as a sub-committee was proposed.
1898. ‘H. S. Merriman,’ Roden’s Corner, vii. 69. The meeting of the lady committees of the bazaar and ball sub-committees.
