adj obedient; submissive.
2. subject ·vt to make subservient.
3. subject ·vt to submit; to make accountable.
4. subject ·adj placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
5. subject ·adj the person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
6. subject ·noun the incident, scene, figure, group, ·etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
7. subject ·adj that which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
8. subject ·noun the principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
9. subject ·adj exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
10. subject ·vt to cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
11. subject ·vt to expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
12. subject ·vt to bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
13. subject ·adj that which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.
14. subject ·adj hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. ·cf. object, ·noun, 2.
15. subject ·adj that which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
xvi. subject ·adj that in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
xvii. subject ·adj placed under the power of another; specifically (international law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, jamaica is subject to great britain.
xviii. subject ·adj 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.
xix. subject ·adj 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.