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underlie (v.)
Old English
under licgan
"to be subordinate to, to submit to;" see
under
+
lie
(v.2). Meaning "to lie under or beneath" is attested from c.1600; figurative sense of "to be the basis of" is attested from 1852 (implied in
underlying
).
