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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Subject \Sub*ject"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Subjected \Sub*ject"ed\, adjective
1. Subjacent. ''Led them direct . . . to the subjected plain.'' [Obs.] --Milton.
2. Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another.
3. Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.
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