Obs. rare–0. [ad. L. subsortītio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subsortīrī: see SUB- 26 and SORTITION.] Selection by lot to fill the place of another. So Subsortitiously adv.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 18. There being a hundred and fifty sick in the S. George, the councel ordered,… that every ship should take to nurse a couple of the sick, and subsortitiously, by lot, to supply their places with as many sound.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Subsortition, a chusing by lots, after others have chosen, to fill up the number of those that before were refused.
