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. | | 3. | Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. | | 4. | Obedient; submissive. | 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. | | 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. | | 5. | The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character. | | 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. | | 7. | That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; 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. | | 9. | (Mus.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. | | 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. | | 2. | To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions. | | 3. | To submit; to make accountable. | | 4. | To make subservient. | | 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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