Sŭb′di-chōt′o-my, n.

n. [Prefix sub and dichotomy.] A subordinate, or inferior, division into pairs; separation. [Rare.]

We do not see that while we still affect, by all means, a rigid external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross, conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of “wood, hay, and stubble,” forced and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degenerating of a church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Milton.