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  • English Word Subitaneous Definition Sudden; hasty.
  • English Word Subitany Definition Subitaneous; sudden; hasty.
  • English Word Subito Definition In haste; quickly; rapidly.
  • English Word Subjacent Definition Lying under or below.
  • English Word Subjacent Definition Being in a lower situation, though not directly beneath; as, hills and subjacent valleys.
  • English Word Subject Definition Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
  • English Word Subject Definition Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
  • English Word Subject Definition Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
  • English Word Subject Definition Obedient; submissive.
  • English Word Subject Definition That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
  • English Word Subject Definition 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.
  • English Word Subject Definition That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
  • English Word Subject Definition That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
  • English Word Subject Definition The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
  • English Word Subject Definition 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.
  • English Word Subject Definition That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
  • English Word Subject Definition 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.
  • English Word Subject Definition The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
  • English Word Subject Definition The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
  • English Word Subject Definition To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
  • English Word Subject Definition To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
  • English Word Subject Definition To submit; to make accountable.
  • English Word Subject Definition To make subservient.
  • English Word Subject Definition To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
  • English Word Subject-matter Definition The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
  • English Word Subjected Definition of Subject
  • English Word Subjected Definition Subjacent.
  • English Word Subjected Definition Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another.
  • English Word Subjected Definition Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.
  • English Word Subjecting Definition of Subject