DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan

 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.
 ◄ ►