a. | 1. | Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. |
| 2. | (International Law) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain. |
| 3. | Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation. |
| 4. | Obedient; submissive. |
n. | 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. |
| 3. | (Anat.) 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. |
| 5. | The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character. |
| 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. |
| 7. | That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum. |
| 8. | 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. |
| 9. | (Mus.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. |
| 10. | (Fine Arts) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent. |
v. t. | 1. | To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue. |
| 2. | To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions. |
| 3. | To submit; to make accountable. |
| 4. | To make subservient. |
| 5. | To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test. |