Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 181
Subject (n.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
Subject (n.) 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.
Note: In international law, the term subject is convertible with citizen.
Subject (n.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
Subject (n.) 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.
Subject (n.) 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.
Subject (n.) (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.
Subject (n.) 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.
Subject (n.) 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.
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.
Subject (n.) (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.
Subject (n.) (Fine Arts) 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.
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 enslaved, who is so in his understanding. -- Locke.
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.
God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts. -- Locke.
Subject (v. t.) To make subservient.
Subjected to his service angel wings. -- Milton.
Subject (v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
Subject (a.) Possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation" [syn: capable, open, subject].
Subject (a.) Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: subject, dependent].
Subject (a.) Likely to be affected by something; "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression".
Subject (n.) The subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love" [syn: subject, topic, theme]
Subject (n.) Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject" [syn: subject, content, depicted object].
Subject (n.) A branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick].
Subject (n.) Some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" [syn: topic, subject, issue, matter].
Subject (n.) (Grammar) One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated.
Subject (n.) A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities" [syn: subject, case, guinea pig].
Subject (n.) A person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" [syn: national, subject].
Subject (n.) (Logic) The first term of a proposition.
Subject (v.) Cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation".
Subject (v.) Make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors".
Subject (v.) Make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn: subjugate, subject].
Subject (v.) Refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject].
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Subject, () Contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term is used in the laws of Scotland.
Subject, () Persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistinction to citizen, which is applied to the same individual when considering his political rights.
Subject, () In monarchical governments, by subject is meant one who owes permanent allegiance to the monarch. Vide Body politic; Greenl. Ev. Sec. 286; Phil. & Am. on Ev. 732, n. 1.
Subjected (a.) Subjacent. "Led them direct . . . to the subjected plain." [Obs.] -- Milton.
Subjected (a.) Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another.
Subjected (a.) Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.
Subjection (n.) 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.
Subjection (n.) 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.
Subjection (n.) Forced submission to control by others [syn: subjugation, subjection].
Subjection (n.) The act of conquering [syn: conquest, conquering, subjection, subjugation].
Subjection. () The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion, or according to the judgment and will of others.
Subjection. () Subjection is either private or public. By the former is meant the subjection to the authority of private persons; as, of children to their parents, of apprentices to their masters, and the like. By the latter is understood the subjection to the authority of public persons. Rutherf. Inst. B. 2, c. 8.
Subjectist (n.) (Metaph.) 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.
Note: 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, a., 2. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Subjective (a.) (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 perso imagines he sees figures which have no objective reality. -- Sub*jec"tive*ly, adv. -- Sub*jec"tive*ness, n.
Subjective (a.) Taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; "a subjective judgment" [ant: nonsubjective, objective].
Subjective (a.) Of a mental act performed entirely within the mind; "a cognition is an immanent act of mind" [syn: immanent, subjective] [ant: transeunt, transient].
Subjectivism (n.) (Metaph.) Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.
Subjectivism (n.) (Philosophy) The doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience.
Subjectivism (n.) The quality of being subjective.
Subjectivist (n.) (Metaph.) One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.
Subjectivist (n.) A person who subscribes to subjectivism.
Subjectivity (n.) 主觀，主觀性 The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject. (Antonym:) Objectivity
Subjectivity (n.) Judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts [syn: subjectivity, subjectiveness].
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.
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.
Subject-matter. The cause, the object, the thing in dispute.
Subject-matter. It is a fatal objection to the jurisdiction of the court when it has not cognizance of the subject-matter of the action; as, if a cause exclusively of admiralty jurisdiction were brought in a court of common law, or a criminal proceeding in a court having jurisdiction of civil cases only.
10 Co. 68, 76 1 Ventr. 133; 8 Mass. 87; 12 Mass. 367. In such case, neither a plea to the jurisdiction, nor any other plea would be required to oust the court of jurisdiction. The cause might be dismissed upon motion, by the court, ex officio.
Subjectness (n.) Quality of being subject. [R.]
Subjicible (a.) Capable of being subjected. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
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.
Syn: To add; annex; join; unite.
Subjoin (v.) Add to the end.
Subjoinder (n.) An additional remark. [R.]
Sub judice () [L.] Before the judge, or court; not yet decided; under judicial consideration.
Sub judice (a.) Before a judge or court of law; awaiting judicial determination.
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.
He subjugated a king, and called him his "vassal." -- Baker.
Syn: To conquer; subdue; overcome. See Conquer.
Subjugate (v.) 1: Put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" [syn: repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce].
Subjugate (v.) Make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn: subjugate, subject].
Subjugation (n.) The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.
Subjugate (n.) Forced submission to control by others [syn: subjugation, subjection].
Subjugate (n.) The act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people" [syn: oppression, subjugation].
Subjugate (n.) The act of conquering [syn: conquest, conquering, subjection, subjugation].
Subjugator (n.) [L.] One who subjugates; a conqueror.
Subjugator (n.) A conqueror who defeats and enslaves.
Subjunction (n.) Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.
Subjunction (n.) Something subjoined; as, a subjunction to a sentence.
Subjunction (n.) The act of supplementing [syn: supplementation, subjunction, subjoining].
Subjunctive (a.) 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 (n.) (Gram.) The subjunctive mood; also, a verb in the subjunctive mood.
Subjunctive (a.) Relating to a mood of verbs; "subjunctive verb endings".
Subjunctive (n.) A mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible [syn: subjunctive mood, subjunctive].
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.
Subkingdom (n.) (Biology) A taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom.
Sublapsarian (n. & a.) (Eccl. Hist.) Same as Infralapsarian.
Sublapsarianism (n.) Infralapsarianism.
Sublapsary (a.) Sublapsarian. -- Johnson.
Sublate (v. t.) To take or carry away; to remove. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Sublation (n.) The act of taking or carrying away; removal.
Sublative (a.) Having power, or tending, to take away. [R.] -- Harris.
Sublease (n.) (Law) A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease. -- Bouvier.
Sublease (n.) A lease from one lessee to another [syn: sublease, sublet].
Sublease (v.) Lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person; "We sublet our apartment over the summer" [syn: sublet, sublease].
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.
Sublet (n.) A lease from one lessee to another [syn: sublease, sublet].
Sublet (v.) Lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person; "We sublet our apartment over the summer" [syn: sublet, sublease].
Sublevation (n.) The act of raising on high; elevation. -- Sir T. More.
Sublevation (n.) An uprising; an insurrection. [R.] -- Sir W. Temple.
Sublibrarian (n.) An under or assistant librarian.
Compare: Midshipman
Midshipman (n.; pl. Midshipmen.) (a) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.
Midshipman (n.; pl. Midshipmen.) (b) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.
Midshipman (n.; pl. Midshipmen.) (c) In the United States navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being students or graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.
Midshipman (n.; pl. Midshipmen.) (Zool.) An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish; also called singingfish.
Cadet midshipman, Formerly a title distinguishing a cadet line officer from a cadet engineer at the U. S. Naval Academy. See under Cadet.
Cadet midshipman, Formerly, a naval cadet who had served his time, passed his examinations, and was awaiting promotion; -- now called, in the United States, midshipman; in England, sublieutenant.
Midshipman (n.) A temporary rank held by young naval officers in training.
Sublieutenant (n.) An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
Sublieutenant (n.) An officer ranking next below a lieutenant.
Subligation (n.) The act of binding underneath. [R.]
Sublimable (a.) Capable of being sublimed or sublimated. -- Sub*lim"a*ble*ness, n. -- Boyle.
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.
The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt. -- Dr. H. More.
Sublimate (v. t.) (Psychology) To redirect the energy (of sexual or other biological drives) into a more socially acceptable or constructive form.
Sublimate (n.) (Chem.) A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.
Corrosive sublimate. (Chem.) mercuric chloride. See Corrosive sublimate under Corrosive.
Sublimate (a.) Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.
Sublimate (a.) Made pure.
Sublimate (n.) The product of vaporization of a solid.
Sublimate (v.) Direct energy or urges into useful activities
Sublimate (v.) Make more subtle or refined [syn: rarefy, sublimate, subtilize].
Sublimate (v.) Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" [syn: purify, sublimate, make pure, distill].
Sublimate (v.) Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated" [syn: sublime, sublimate].
Sublimate (v.) Vaporize and then condense right back again [syn: sublime, sublimate].
Sublimated (a.) Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified.
[Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain. -- Dryden.
Sublimation (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality. -- South.
Sublimation (n.) (Chemistry) A change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid.
Sublimation (n.) (Psychology) Modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable
Sublimatory (a.) Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels. -- Boyle.
Sublimatory (n.) A vessel used for sublimation.
Vials, crosslets, and sublimatories. -- Chaucer.
Sublime (a.) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared. -- Dryden.
Sublime (a.) Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons. "The sublime Julian leader." --De Quincey.
Sublime (a.) 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.
Sublime (a.) Elevated by joy; elate. [Poetic]
Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine. -- Milton.
Sublime (a.) 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 (n.) That which is sublime; -- with the definite article; as:
Sublime (n.) 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.
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. [Archaic]
A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit. -- E. P. Whipple.
Sublime (v. t.) (Chem.) 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.
The sun . . . Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes. -- Pope.
Sublime (v. t.) To dignify; to ennoble.
An ordinary gift can not sublime a person to a supernatural employment. -- Jer. Taylor.
Sublime (v. i.) (Chem.) 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.
Sublime (a.) Inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity" -- M.S.Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"- Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night" [syn: empyreal, empyrean, sublime].
Sublime (a.) Worthy of adoration or reverence [syn: reverend, sublime].
Sublime (a.) Lifted up or set high; "their hearts were jocund and sublime" -- Milton.
Sublime (a.) Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose" [syn: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified idealistic, noble-minded].
Sublime (v.) Vaporize and then condense right back again [syn: sublime, sublimate].
Sublime (v.) Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated" [syn: sublime, sublimate].
Sublimed (a.) (Chem.) Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified. "Sublimed mercurie." -- Chaucer.
Sublimed (a.) Passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid [syn: sublimed, sublimated].
Sublimely (adv.) In a sublime manner.
Sublimely (adv.) Completely; in a lofty and exalted manner; "awaking in me, sublimely unconscious, interest and energy for tackling these tasks".
Sublimeness (n.) The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.
Sublimification (n.) The act of making sublime, or state of being made sublime.
Sublimities (n. 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.
Syn: Grandeur; magnificence.
Usage: Sublimity, Grandeur. The mental state indicated by these two words is the same, namely, a mingled emotion of astonishment and awe. In speaking of the quality which produces this emotion, we call it grandeur when it springs from what is vast in space, power, etc.; we call it sublimity when it springs from what is elevated far above the ordinary incidents of humanity. An immense plain is grand. The heavens are not only grand, but sublime (as the predominating emotion), from their immense height. Exalted intellect, and especially exalted virtue under severe trials, give us the sense of moral sublimity, as in the case of our Savior in his prayer for his murderers. We do not speak of Satan, when standing by the fiery gulf, with his "unconquerable will and study of revenge," as a sublime object; but there is a melancholy grandeur thrown around him, as of an "archangel ruined."
Sublimity (n.) Nobility in thought or feeling or style.
Sublimity, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 2148
Housing Units (2000): 711
Land area (2000): 0.950574 sq. miles (2.461974 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.950574 sq. miles (2.461974 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70700
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 44.829817 N, 122.792870 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97385
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sublimity, OR
Sublimity
Sublineation (n.) A mark of a line or lines under a word in a sentence, or under another line; underlining.