Subject, sub′jekt, adj. under the power of another: liable, prone, disposed: exposed: subordinate, tributary: subservient.—n. one under the power of another: one under allegiance to a sovereign: that on which any operation is performed: that which is treated or handled: (anat.) a dead body for dissection: a person supposed to be peculiarly sensitive to hypnotic influence: that which it is the object of the artist to express, the scheme or idea of a work of art: a picture representing action and incident: that of which anything is said or of which a discourse treats, bringing many things under a common head: the mind, regarded as the thinking power, in contrast with the object, that about which it thinks: topic: matter, materials: the general plan of any work of art.—v.t. Subject′, to throw or bring under: to bring under the power of: to make subordinate or subservient: to subdue: to enslave: to expose or make liable to: to cause to undergo.—n. Subjec′tion, the act of subjecting or subduing: the state of being subject to another.—adj. Subject′ive, relating to the subject: derived from one's own consciousness: denoting those states of thought or feeling of which the mind is the conscious subject—opp. to Objective.—adv. Subject′ively.—n. Subject′iveness.—v.t. Subject′ivise.—ns. Subject′ivism, a philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, subjective states; Subject′ivist, one who holds to subjectivism.—adj. Subjectivist′ic.—adv. Subjectivist′ically.—ns. Subjectiv′ity, state of being subjective: that which is treated subjectively; Sub′ject-matter, a tautological compound for subject, theme, topic; Sub′ject-ob′ject, the immediate object of cognition, or the thought itself; Sub′jectship, the state of being subject. [Fr. sujet—L. subjectus—sub, under, jacĕre, to throw.]
Subjoin, sub-join′, v.t. to join under: to add at the end or afterwards: to fix or annex.—ns. Subjoin′der, a remark following on another; Sub′joint, a secondary joint.
Subjugate, sub′jōō-gāt, v.t. to bring under the yoke: to bring under power or dominion: to conquer.—ns. Subjugā′tion; Sub′jugātor. [L. sub, under, jugum, a yoke.]
Subjunctive, sub-jungk′tiv, adj. subjoined: added to something: denoting that mood of a verb which expresses condition, hypothesis, or contingency.—n. the subjunctive mood. [L. sub, under, jungĕre, to join.]
Subkingdom, sub-king′dum, n. a subordinate kingdom: a division of a kingdom: a subdivision.
Sublapsarian, sub-laps-ā′ri-an, adj. relating to the sublapsarians or to their doctrines.—n. one of a class of moderate Calvinists, who hold that God merely permitted the fall of Adam, without preordaining it.—n. Sublapsā′rianism. [L. sub, under, lapsus, fall.]
Sublate, sub-lāt′, v.t. to deny—opp. to Posit: to remove.—n. Sublā′tion.—adj. Sub′lātive.
Sublease, sub-lēs′, n. an under-lease or lease by a tenant to another.—n. Sub′lessee, the holder of a sublease.
Sublet, sub-let′, v.t. to under-let or lease, as by one himself a tenant to another.
Sublevate, sub′lē-vāt, v.t. to raise, excite—also Sol′levate.—n. Sublēvā′tion. [L. sublevāre, -ātum, to lift up.]