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  • Something can be in potency with regard to a given act, either as the subject (subiectum) from which something else can or must be produced (as in the case of matter with regard to form), or as the object (obiectum) that constitutes the result itself of production (as in the case of generation, the form, or more precisely, the combination of matter and form).

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • To obviate this problem, Henry seeks to refine further, especially in his later Quodlibeta, the distinction between possibile subiective and possibile obiective, so that, within certain limits (that is, from a logical rather than from an ontological perspective), essence can figure as the subiectum, and not just the terminus, of creation.

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • In the first signum, essence loses its non-being; in the second, essence occupies an intermediate position between the non-being it is abandoning and the being it is acquiring, and in this sense it is the subiectum of the transmutation; finally, in the third, essence has acquired its being, and as such it is the terminus of the change

    Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

  • Friedman, R.L. 2004: “Principia and Prologue in Francesco d'Appignano's Sentences Commentary: The Question ˜Quaeritur utrum ens simpliciter simplex possit esse subiectum alicuius scientiae™,” in Priori-Balena

    Francis of Marchia Schabel, Christopher 2008

  • Normally, a quality (qualitas) is what is found in an underlying subject (subiectum).

    Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006

  • Vltra veni ad vnum regnum vocatum Tibek quod est subiectum Cani, in quo est maior copia panis et vini, quam sit in toto mundo vt credo.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • _Ex labore Deo naturæ sacrifica liberaliter paulatim reduces animum Deo subiectum.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • * Uxorem iam pudicam maritus iam non zelotypus, filium iam subiectum pater retro patiens abdicavit, servum iam fidelem dominus olim mitis ab oculis relegavit: [1775] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • “Uxorem iam pudicam maritus iam non zelotypus, filium iam subiectum pater retro patiens abdicavit, servum iam fidelem dominus olim mitis ab oculis relegavit”

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • Substat autem id quod aliis accidentibus subiectum quoddam, ut esse ualeant, subministrat; sub illis enim stat, dum subiectum est accidentibus.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

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