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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower
situation. |
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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. |
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Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to
extreme heat; men subject to temptation. |
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Obedient; submissive. |
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That which is placed under the authority, dominion,
control, or influence of something else. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the
chief character. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on
which a composition or a movement is based. |
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The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the
aim of the artist to represent. |
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To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make
subject; to subordinate; to subdue. |
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To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity
subjects a person to impositions. |
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To submit; to make accountable. |
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To make subservient. |
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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. |
