(prep.) Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee.
(prep.) Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.
(prep.) Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath.
(adv.) In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath.
(adv.) On the earth, as opposed to the heavens.
(adv.) In hell, or the regions of the dead.
(adv.) In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below.
(adv.) In some part or page following.
Example Sentences:
Undergird
Definition:
(v. t.) To blind below; to gird round the bottom.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standards undergirding a suspicious activity report are defined as: " Observed behavior reasonably indicative of preoperational planning related to terrorism or other criminal activity ."
(2) A critical review of the literature undergirding these programs reveals wide gaps in knowledge about the relative efficacy of a variety of alternative strategies.
(3) Its intention is to show cosmetic surgeons some of the implicit and explicit philosophical principles and potential arguments undergirding their potential surgical evaluations.
(4) A portion of this core support has undergirded resources and research activities at Cayo Santiago.
(5) Perhaps for similar reasons our national literature has often been uneasy, if not outright resistant to the substratum of comic writing that has always undergirded it.
(6) A recent study from Lee Drutman at the New America Foundation finds that very few Americans at all – Republican or Democratic – support the kind of rightwing economic policies that undergird Trumpcare.
(7) Nursing knowledge of these strategies and the theoretical bases undergirding them has only begun to develop.
(8) Putting Tubman’s face on the fiscal system which undergirds the likes of Aetna (and its hundreds of millions in annual profits ) would be dismaying.
(9) The NSA initially claimed it could not find any record of Snowden electing to notify officials about his concerns on bulk surveillance after " extensive investigation " but in May released an email Snowden sent to the NSA general counsel's office inquiring about the legal hierarchy undergirding of surveillance practices.
(10) In a joint letter, 51 serving diplomats wrote: “None of us sees merit in a large-scale US invasion of Syria… But we do see merit in a more militarily assertive US role… based on the judicious use of standoff and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hardnosed US-led diplomatic process.” Military force, reasoned the frustrated officials, could “enforce the cessation of hostilities”.
(11) Senator Brandis, are you aware of, and have you or your office evaluated, any of the proposals for serious law reform put to President Obama in the case of indiscriminate surveillance by the NSA, and does the attorney believe that any of those proposals could be relevant here in Australia?” Brandis said he had studied Obama’s remarks carefully and Australian governments of both political persuasions were “always alert to ensure that the statutory framework which undergirds and provides for the accountability mechanism of our intelligence agencies is as appropriate and relevant as possible”.
(12) It is concluded that philosophy undergirds psychiatric nosology, while psychiatric nosology raises a series of philosophical questions.
(13) Anyone engaged in developing community health nursing theory would do well to consider which ideologic model is undergirding the process.
(14) Business is undergirded by “wasta”, the Arabic for connections.
(15) In their book, The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney propose four basic perspectives to undergird and inform the practice of psychiatry.
(16) The article raises questions about the relationship between UNOS and the federal government, about potential conflicts between UNOS guidelines and state laws under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, and about the ideological stance undergirding much of current federal policy in the organ transplantation arena.
(17) This article examines aspects of social work in health care from a philosophy of science perspective, which suggests different ways of conceptualizing and defining variables ranging from service recipients to principles undergirding social work intervention.
(18) A foreign policy which works closely with the US when it is undergirding regional peace and stability, but is willing and equipped to break from it when it is not.
(19) Ethics research explores the basic moral norms undergirding nursing research, practice, and education.
(20) Next on the list is reason: the attack on climate science is, in fact, an attack on science itself, on the enterprise that undergirds modernity.