subordinately

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Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

Subserve, sub-sėrv′, v.t. to serve subordinately or instrumentally: to help forward.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

So the metaphysical units of the body, being all minds, represent one another as well as the dominant mind: one another co-ordinately, the dominant mind subordinately.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.

As well-wishers some men may not only be nugatory but positive obstacles in your peculiar plans; but as foes you may subordinately cement them into your general design.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Though the man who will have his fee be subordinately honest,—though the man who will have his honor, subordinately rich, are they not evermore of diverse schools?

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John