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Subject   /səbdʒˈɛkt/  /sˈəbdʒɪkt/   Listen
noun
Subject  n.  
1.
That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
2.
Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States. "Was never subject longed to be a king, As I do long and wish to be a subject." "The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, human laws require it." Note: In international law, the term subject is convertible with citizen.
3.
That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
4.
That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done. "This subject for heroic song." "Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which... shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate." "The unhappy subject of these quarrels."
5.
The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character. "Writers of particular lives... are apt to be prejudiced in favor of their subject."
6.
(Logic & Gram.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb. "The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is affirmed or denied."
7.
That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum. "That which manifests its qualities in other words, that in which the appearing causes inhere, that to which they belong is called their subject or substance, or substratum."
8.
Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2. "The philosophers of mind have, in a manner, usurped and appropriated this expression to themselves. Accordingly, in their hands, the phrases conscious or thinking subject, and subject, mean precisely the same thing."
9.
(Mus.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. "The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song."
10.
(Fine Arts) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.


verb
Subject  v. t.  (past & past part. subjected; pres. part. subjecting)  
1.
To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue. "Firmness of mind that subjects every gratification of sense to the rule of right reason." "In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie."
2.
To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
3.
To submit; to make accountable. "God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts."
4.
To make subservient. "Subjected to his service angel wings."
5.
To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.


adjective
Subject  adj.  
1.
Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. (Obs.)
2.
Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain. "Esau was never subject to Jacob."
3.
Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. "All human things are subject to decay."
4.
Obedient; submissive. "Put them in mind to be subject to principalities."
Synonyms: Liable; subordinate; inferior; obnoxious; exposed. See Liable.





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"Subject" Quotes from Famous Books



... disseminated. The idea suggested itself to the active mind of the artist, that this wonderful and but partially explored agent might be rendered subservient to that system of intercommunication which had become so important a principle of modern civilization. He brooded over the subject as he walked the deck, or lay wakeful in his berth, and by the time he arrived at New York, had so far matured his invention as to have decided upon a telegraph of signs, which is essentially that now in use. After having sufficiently demonstrated his ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... my weakness, and the contention to which my passions have been lately subject, might tend to awaken emotions in you which ought to be estranged from your mind. Our lot is cast: let us seek support in those principles which first taught us reciprocal esteem, nor palliate our desertion of them by that self pity which ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... ranged airily, like a blue-fly, from one agglomeration of ordure to another; and he finally suggested a task, not necessary to dwell on, but which reached the utmost height or depth of originality in connection with such a subject. Mr. Lyddon laboured under some shadow of doubt, but he quickly agreed when his man reminded him of the past ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... to effect a purpose, which has the sanction of the President, the cabinet, and Gen. Bragg, but to have his views, and information as to what would probably be its effect on the army under his command. We shall soon know, I hope, what Gen. Lee will have to say on the subject, and I am mistaken if he does not oppose it. If these men had been put to death in the heat of passion, on the field, it would have been justified, but it is too late now. Besides, Gen. Lee's son is a captive in the hands of the enemy, designated for retaliation whenever ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... God nor against my honour. And this it is that enables me to speak without fear; for I feel sure that He who sees my heart is on my side, and with such a Judge in my favour, I were wrong to fear such as are subject to His decision. Why should I weep? My conscience and my heart do not at all rebuke me, and so far am I from repenting of this matter, that, were it to be done over again, I should do just the same. But you, madam, have good cause to weep both for the deep ...
— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre


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