| Subject |
a. |
Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. |
| Subject |
a. |
Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain. |
| Subject |
a. |
Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. |
| Subject |
a. |
Obedient; submissive. |
| Subject |
a. |
That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else. |
| Subject |
a. |
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. |
| Subject |
a. |
That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection. |
| Subject |
a. |
That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done. |
| Subject |
a. |
The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character. |
| Subject |
a. |
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. |
| Subject |
a. |
That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum. |
| Subject |
a. |
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. |
| Subject |
n. |
The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. |
| Subject |
n. |
The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent. |
| Subject |
v. t. |
To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue. |
| Subject |
v. t. |
To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions. |
| Subject |
v. t. |
To submit; to make accountable. |
| Subject |
v. t. |
To make subservient. |
| Subject |
v. t. |
To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test. |
| Subject-matter |
n. |
The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. |
| Subjected |
imp. & p. p. |
of Subject |
| Subjected |
a. |
Subjacent. |
| Subjected |
a. |
Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another. |
| Subjected |
a. |
Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious. |
| Subjecting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Subject |
| Subjection |
a. |
The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. |
| Subjection |
a. |
The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, the safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws. |
| Subjectist |
n. |
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. |
| Subjective |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a subject. |
| Subjective |
a. |
Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states. |
| Subjective |
a. |
Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. |
| Subjectivism |
n. |
Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism. |
| Subjectivist |
n. |
One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist. |
| Subjectivity |
n. |
The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject. |
| Subjectless |
a. |
Having no subject. |
| Subjectness |
n. |
Quality of being subject. |
