[UNDER-1 6 a.] A sub-agent.

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1677.  Gilpin, Demonol. (1867), 191. The woman Jezebel … was Satan’s under-agent.

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1679.  Everard, Popish Plot, 2. I askt her … who were the leading-men in the contrivance, and who the Under-agents to carry it on?

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1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 225, ¶ 3. Discretion … is like an Under-Agent of Providence, to guide and direct us in the ordinary Concerns of Life.

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1733.  T. Steward, Ordination Charge. You [sc. clergymen] are made Ministers of Christ, and, as I may say, his Under-Agents.

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1805.  Wordsw., Prelude, XIII. 273. Words are but under agents in their souls.

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1883.  Manch. Guard., 15 Oct., 5/3. The Earl of Dalhousie was driving near Carnoustie with his under agent.

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