SPage 900
- 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