Subject adjective [ Middle English suget , Old French souzget , sougit (in which the first part is Latin subtus below, from sub under), subgiet , subject , French sujet , from Latin subjectus lying under, subjected, past participle of subjicere , subicere , to throw, lay, place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
1. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

2. 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.

Syn. -- Liable; subordinate; inferior; obnoxious; exposed. See Liable .

Subject noun [ From Latin subjectus , through an old form of French sujet . See Subject , adjective ]
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.

» In international law, the term subject is convertible with citizen .

3. 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. "This subject for heroic song." Milton.

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. Confer Object , noun , 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.

Subject transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Subjected ; present participle & verbal noun Subjecting .]
1. To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.

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.

Subject-matter noun The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.

As to the subject-matter , words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto.

Blackstone.

As science makes progress in any subject-matter , poetry recedes from it.

J. H. Newman.

Subjected adjective
1. Subjacent. "Led them direct . . . to the subjected plain." [ Obsolete] Milton.

2. Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another.

3. Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.

Subjection noun [ Latin subjectio : confer Old French subjection , French subjétion . See Subject , adjective ]
1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.

The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels.

Sir M. Hale.

2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, the safety of life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws. "To be bound under subjection ." Chaucer.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands.

1 Peter iii. 1.

Because the subjection of the body to the will is by natural necessity, the subjection of the will unto God voluntary, we stand in need of direction after what sort our wills and desires may be rightly conformed to His.

Hooker.

Subjectist noun (Metaph.) One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.

Subjective adjective [ Latin subjectivus : confer French subjectif .]
1. Of or pertaining to a subject.

2. Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.

» In the philosophy of the mind, subjective denotes what is to be referred to the thinking subject, the ego ; objective , what belongs to the object of thought, the non- ego . See Objective , adjective , 2. Sir W. Hamilton.

3. (Lit. & Art) Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.

Syn. -- See Objective .

Subjective sensation (Physiol.) , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes excite the nervous apparatus of the sense organs, as when a person imagines he sees figures which have no objective reality.

-- Sub*jec"tive*ly , adverb -- Sub*jec"tive*ness , noun

Subjectivism noun (Metaph.) Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.

Subjectivist noun (Metaph.) One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

Subjectivity noun The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.

Subjectless adjective Having no subject.

Subjectness noun Quality of being subject. [ R.]

Subjicible adjective Capable of being subjected. [ Obsolete] Jer. Taylor.

Subjoin transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Subjoined ; present participle & verbal noun Subjoining .] [ Confer Old French subjoindre , Latin subjungere . See Sub- , and Join , and confer Subjective .] To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.

Syn. -- To add; annex; join; unite.

Subjoinder noun An additional remark. [ R.]

Subjugate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Subjugated ; present participle & verbal noun Subjugating .] [ Latin subjugatus , past participle of subjugare to subjugate; sub under + jugum a yoke. See Yoke .] To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.

He subjugated a king, and called him his "vassal."

Baker.

Syn. -- To conquer; subdue; overcome. See Conquer .

Subjugation noun [ Confer French subjugation , Late Latin subjugatio .] The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.

Subjugator noun [ Latin ] One who subjugates; a conqueror.

Subjunction noun [ See Subjunctive .]
1. Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.

2. Something subjoined; as, a subjunction to a sentence.

Subjunctive adjective [ Latin subjunctivus , from subjungere , subjunctum , to subjoin: confer French subjonctif . See Subjoin .] Subjoined or added to something before said or written.

Subjunctive mood (Gram.) , that form of a verb which express the action or state not as a fact, but only as a conception of the mind still contingent and dependent. It is commonly subjoined, or added as subordinate, to some other verb, and in English is often connected with it by if , that , though , lest , unless , except , until , etc., as in the following sentence: " If there were no honey, they [ bees] would have no object in visiting the flower." Lubbock. In some languages, as in Latin and Greek, the subjunctive is often independent of any other verb, being used in wishes, commands, exhortations, etc.

Subjunctive noun (Gram.) The subjunctive mood; also, a verb in the subjunctive mood.

Subkingdom noun One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoölogy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Cœlentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.

Sublapsarian noun & adjective [ Prefix sub + lapse : confer French sublapsarien , sublapsarie .] (Eccl. Hist.) Same as Infralapsarian .

Sublapsarianism noun Infralapsarianism.

Sublapsary adjective Sublapsarian. Johnson.

Sublate transitive verb [ From sublatus , used as past participle of tollere to take away. See Tolerate .] To take or carry away; to remove. [ R.] E. Hall.

Sublation noun [ Latin sublatio , from sublatus , used as past participle of tollere to take away.] The act of taking or carrying away; removal. [ R.] Bp. Hall.

Sublative adjective Having power, or tending, to take away. [ R.] Harris.

Sublease noun (Law) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease. Bouvier.

Sublessee noun A holder of a sublease.

Sublet transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sublet ; present participle & verbal noun Subletting .] To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.

Sublevation noun [ Latin sublevare to lift up; sub under + levare to lift, raise: confer Latin sublevatio an allevation.]
1. The act of raising on high; elevation. Sir T. More.

2. An uprising; an insurrection. [ R.] Sir W. Temple.

Sublibrarian noun An under or assistant librarian.

Sublieutenant noun [ Prefix sub + lieutenant : confer French sous-lieutenant .] An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.

Subligation noun [ Latin subligatio , from subligare to bind below; sub under + ligare to bind.] The act of binding underneath. [ R.]

Sublimable adjective [ Confer French sublimable . See Sublime ., transitive verb ] Capable of being sublimed or sublimated. -- Sub*lim"a*ble*ness , noun Boyle.

Sublimate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sublimated ; present participle & verbal noun Sublimating .] [ Latin sublimatus , past participle of sublimare to raise, elevate, from sublimis high: confer French sublimer . See Sublime , adjective , and confer Surlime , transitive verb ]
1. To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

2. To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.

The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.

Dr. H. More.

Sublimate noun [ Late Latin sublimatum .] (Chemistry) A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.

Corrosive sublimate . (Chemistry) See under Corrosive .

Sublimate adjective [ Late Latin sublimatus .] Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.

Sublimated adjective Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified.

[ Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain.

Dryden.

Sublimation noun [ Late Latin sublimatio : confer French sublimation .]
1. (Chemistry) The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.

2. The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.

3. That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.

Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality.

South.

Sublimatory adjective Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels. Boyle.

Sublimatory noun A vessel used for sublimation.

Vials, crosslets, and sublimatories .

Chaucer.

Sublime adjective [ Compar. Sublimer ; superl. Sublimest .] [ Latin sublimis ; sub under + (perhaps) a word akin to limen lintel, sill, thus meaning, up to the lintel: confer French sublime . Confer Eliminate .]
1. Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.

Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.

Dryden.

2. Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons. "The sublime Julian leader." De Quincey.

3. Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed.

Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime .

Prior.

Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.

Longfellow.

4. Elevated by joy; elate. [ Poetic]

Their hearts were jocund and sublime ,
Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.

Milton.

5. Lofty of mien; haughty; proud. [ Poetic] "Countenance sublime and insolent." Spenser.

His fair, large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule.

Milton.

Syn. -- Exalted; lofty; noble; majestic. See Grand .

Sublime noun That which is sublime; -- with the definite article ; as: (a) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.

The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase.

Addison.

(b) That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.

Sublime transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sublimed ; present participle & verbal noun Subliming .] [ Confer Latin sublimare , French sublimer to subject to sublimation. See Sublime , adjective , and confer Sublimate , transitive verb ]
1. To raise on high. [ Archaic]

A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit.

E. P. Whipple.

2. (Chemistry) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.

3. To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.

The sun . . .
Which not alone the southern wit sublimes ,
But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes.

Pope.

4. To dignify; to ennoble.

An ordinary gift can not sublime a person to a supernatural employment.

Jer. Taylor.

Sublime intransitive verb (Chemistry) To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.

Sublimed adjective (Chemistry) Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified. " Sublimed mercurie." Chaucer.

Sublimely adverb In a sublime manner.

Sublimeness noun The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.