Subject

Definition of Subject

Sub`ject´

a.	1.	Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
	2.	(International Law) 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. - Locke.
	3.	Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. All human things are subject to decay. - Dryden.
	4.	Obedient; submissive. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities. - Titus iii. 1.
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. - Shak. The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, human laws require it. - Swift.
	3.	(Anat.) 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. Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate. - Dryden. The unhappy subject of these quarrels. - Shak.
	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. - C. Middleton.
	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. - I. Watts.
	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. - Sir W. Hamilton.
	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. - Sir W. Hamilton.
	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. - Rockstro.
	10.	(Fine Arts) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
v. t.	1.	To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue. [imp. & p. p. Subjected ; p. pr. & vb. n. Subjecting.] Firmness of mind that subjects every gratification of sense to the rule of right reason. - C. Middleton. In one short view subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie. - Pope. He is the most subjected, the most nslaved, who is so in his understanding. - Locke.
	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. - Locke.
	4.	To make subservient. Subjected to his service angel wings. - Milton.
	5.	To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.

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