English Dictionary: subjected | by the DICT Development Group |
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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. |