Arch. rare. [f. SUB- 1 + tenia, TÆNIA.] The narrow listel under the lower tænia of the Doric entablature; the guttæ band.
1563. Shute, Archit., c iij b. Geue Tenia … the seuenth parte, and geue Subtenia, and Gutta pendante … the sixte part of a modulus to their height.
