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  1. adjective Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of another or others: subject to the law.
  2. adjective Prone; disposed: a child who is subject to colds.
  3. adjective Likely to incur or receive; exposed: a directive subject to misinterpretation.
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  • I will certainly order “Progress and Poverty,” for the subject is a most interesting one. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
  • Stifling an arch remark, I stepped around him to look, and saw that his subject was the same line of rooftops over which I had remarked the water tank. —  MFSF,January2005
  • Thus, from the correlationist standpoint, when we speak of the subject we must distinguish between the transcendental subject which is a condition of scientific knowledge and the empirical subject or organ of the subject, which is a spatio-temporal object existing in a body. —  Larval Subjects .
  • "Professor von Hippel's passion for the subject was apparent in his presentation," Piel said. "it made me want to learn more about ways to clean out nuclear materials." —  Stories from The Sun
  • Functional MRI may show those holes related to nature or nurture, as a subject is asked to address stimulus or problems. —  AlexRudloff.com
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subject:   subjects ·  subjecting ·  subjected
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sūbiectus, from past participle of sūbicere, to subject : sub-, sub- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Now altered to suit the orig. L. form; from Middle English subget, sugget, suget, soget, from Old French suget, soget, sougiet, sujet, suject, later subject, French sujet = Spanish sujeto, subjecto = Portuguese sujeito = Italian suggetto, soggetto, subject, as a noun (= German subjekt), a subject (person or thing), from Latin subjectus, lying under or near, adjacent, also subject, exposed, as a noun, subjectus, masculine, a subject, an inferior, subjectum, neuter, the subject of a proposition, properly past participle of subjicere, subicere, past participle subjectus, throw, lay, place, or bind under, subject, from sub, under, + jacěre, throw: see jet. Cf. subjacent. Cf. abject, object, project.
  2. Now altered to suit the orig. L. form; from Middle English sugetten, from Old French *sujeter = Spanish subjectar, subjetar, sujetar = Portuguese sujeitar = Italian suggettare, soggettare, subject, from Middle Latin subjectare, subject, freq. of Latin subjicere, subicere, throw under: see subject, adjective and n.
 

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