c. 1510. Barclay, Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570), D iv. Thus were they … by death subduers of their owne corps carnall.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 73. The ald Romanis, subdueris of the Warlde.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., 39/2. Ostorius … Subduer of great Caractacus.
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, in Aliments (1736), 253. Figs are great subduers of Acrimony.
1747. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. ii. 15. With some of the sex, insolent controul is a more efficacious subduer than kindness or concession.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 322. By the laws of nature the occupant and subduer of the soil is the true proprietor.
1860. Geo. Eliot, Mill on Fl., I. v. It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 191. Such was He, the Subduer of all which exalted itself.
1900. Dk. Argyll, Autobiogr. (1906), II. 85. The subduer of a fierce enemy and the saviour of India.
