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Jan. 26, 2015
Word of the Day

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\SUHB-ruh-geyt\
verb
1. to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
2. Civil Law. to substitute (one person) for another with reference to a claim or right.
Quotes
After all, he effaced reality and subrogated his false, sublime irreality. Scriabin half-stood in philosophy and science and asked What? and How?
-- Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, 1969
Origin
Subrogate comes from the Latin word subrogāre which means "to nominate (someone) as a substitute."
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