Subject (a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
Subject (a.) 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.
Subject (a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
Subject (a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
Subject (a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
Subject (a.) 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.
Subject (a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
Subject (a.) 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.
Subject (n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
Subject (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
Subjected (imp. & p. p.) of Subject
Subjecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subject
Subject (v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
Subject (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
Subject (v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.
Subject (v. t.) To make subservient.
Subject (v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Subjected (a.) Subjacent.
Subjected (a.) Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another.
Subjected (a.) Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.
Subjection (a.) The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.
Subjection (a.) 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.
Subjectist (n.) One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
Subjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a subject.
Subjective (a.) 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.
Subjective (a.) Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer.
Subjectivism (n.) Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.
Subjectivist (n.) One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.
Subjectivity (n.) The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.
Subjectless (a.) Having no subject.
Subject-matter (n.) The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
Subjectness (n.) Quality of being subject.
Subjicible (a.) Capable of being subjected.
Subjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Subjoin
Subjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subjoin
Subjoin (v. t.) To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.
Subjoinder (n.) An additional remark.
Sub judice () Before the judge, or court; not yet decided; under judicial consideration.
Subjugated (imp. & p. p.) of Subjugate
Subjugating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subjugate
Subjugate (v. t.) 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.
Subjugation (n.) The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.
Subjugator (n.) One who subjugates; a conqueror.
Subjunction (n.) Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.
Subjunction (n.) Something subjoined; as, a subjunction to a sentence.
Subjunctive (a.) Subjoined or added to something before said or written.
Subjunctive (n.) The subjunctive mood; also, a verb in the subjunctive mood.
Subkingdom (n.) One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoology, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.
Sublapsarian (n. & a.) Same as Infralapsarian.
Sublapsarianism (n.) Infralapsarianism.
Sublapsary (a.) Sublapsarian.
Sublate (v. t.) To take or carry away; to remove.
Sublation (n.) The act of taking or carrying away; removal.
Sublative (a.) Having power, or tending, to take away.
Sublease (n.) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.
Sublessee (n.) A holder of a sublease.
Sublet (imp. & p. p.) of Sublet
Subletting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sublet
Sublet (v. t.) To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.
Sublevation (n.) The act of raising on high; elevation.
Sublevation (n.) An uprising; an insurrection.
Sublibrarian (n.) An under or assistant librarian.
Sublieutenant (n.) An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
Subligation (n.) The act of binding underneath.
Sublimable (v. t.) Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.
Sublimated (imp. & p. p.) of Sublimate
Sublimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sublimate
Sublimate (v. t.) To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
Sublimate (v. t.) To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
Sublimate (n.) A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.
Sublimate (a.) Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.
Sublimated (a.) Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified.
Sublimation (n.) The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.
Sublimation (n.) The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.
Sublimation (n.) That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.
Sublimatory (a.) Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels.
Sublimatory (n.) A vessel used for sublimation.
Sublime (superl.) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
Sublime (superl.) Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons.
Sublime (superl.) 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.
Sublime (superl.) Elevated by joy; elate.
Sublime (superl.) Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
Sublime (n.) That which is sublime; -- with the definite article
Sublime (n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
Sublime (n.) That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.
Sublimed (imp. & p. p.) of Sublime
Subliming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sublime
Sublime (v. t.) To raise on high.
Sublime (v. t.) 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.
Sublime (v. t.) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
Sublime (v. t.) To dignify; to ennoble.
Sublime (v. i.) 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 (a.) Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified.
Sublimely (adv.) In a sublime manner.
Sublimeness (n.) The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.
Sublimification (n.) The act of making sublime, or state of being made sublime.
Sublimities (pl. ) of Sublimity
Sublimity (n.) The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).
Sublimity (n.) That which is sublime; as, the sublimities of nature.
Sublineation (n.) A mark of a line or lines under a word in a sentence, or under another line; underlining.