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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Subject \Sub*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Subjected}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Subjected \Sub*ject"ed\, a.
      1. Subjacent. [bd]Led them direct . . . to the subjected
            plain.[b8] [Obs.] --Milton.
  
      2. Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of
            another.
  
      3. Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.
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