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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.		 a.
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Placed under the power of another; specifically [International Law], owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.		 a.
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Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.		 a.
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Obedient; submissive.		 a.
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That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.		 a.
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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.		 a.
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That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically [Anat.], a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.		 a.
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That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.		 a.
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The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.		 a.
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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.		 a.
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That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.		 a.
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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.		 a.
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The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.		 n.
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The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.		 n.
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To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.		 v. t.
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To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.		 v. t.
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To submit; to make accountable.		 v. t.
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To make subservient.		 v. t.
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To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.		 v. t.
Resubjection A second subjection. n.
Subjected of Subject imp. & p. p.
Subjecting of Subject p. pr. & vb. n.
Subjected Subjacent. a.
Subjected Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another. a.
Subjected Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious. a.
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The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.		 a.
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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.		 a.
Subjectist One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. n.
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Of or pertaining to a subject.		 a.
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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.		 a.
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Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.		 a.
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Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.		 n.
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One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.		 n.
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The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.		 n.
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Having no subject.		 a.
Subject-matter The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. n.
Subjectness Quality of being subject. n.
Insubjection Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government. n.