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 Subject \Sub*ject"\, n. [From L. subjectus, through an old form
   of F. sujet. See {Subject}, a.]
   1. That which is placed under the authority, dominion,
      control, or influence of something else.
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   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.
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            Was never subject longed to be a king,
            As I do long and wish to be a subject. --Shak.
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            The subject must obey his prince, because God
            commands it, human laws require it.   --Swift.
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   Note: In international law, the term subject is convertible
         with citizen.
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   3. That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical
      operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body
      used for the purpose of dissection.
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   4. 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.
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            Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which
            . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein
            to expatiate.                         --Dryden.
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            The unhappy subject of these quarrels. --Shak.
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   5. The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the
      chief character.
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            Writers of particular lives . . . are apt to be
            prejudiced in favor of their subject. --C.
                                                  Middleton.
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   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.
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            The subject of a proposition is that concerning
            which anything is affirmed or denied. --I. Watts.
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   7. That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether
      spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these
      appertain; substance; substratum.
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            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.
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   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.
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            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.
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   9. (Mus.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase,
      on which a composition or a movement is based.
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            The earliest known form of subject is the
            ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song.
                                                  --Rockstro.
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   10. (Fine Arts) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc.,
       which it is the aim of the artist to represent.
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