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parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.

The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the comes, or companion.

long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note. They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement. Buckminster.

ch modes, or the scales anciently used. -- Ecclesiastical States, the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church.

served than in Terence. B. Jonson. The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. Paley.

The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience. If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus . . . the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news. Macaulay. Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table. G. Eliot.…

A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.

To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

r manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.

The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition;…

l philosophy embraces many sciences. Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can embrace. Dryden.

xpression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis. External objects stand before us . . . in all the life and emphasis of extension, figure, and color. Sir W. Hamilton.

one's energies. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison.

cord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, esp. a private, understanding; of a hypnotic subject, being in such a mental state as to be especially subject to the influence of a particular person or persons.

Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.

or reach; to try; to attempt. It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects. Ld. Chatham. To endeavor one's self, to exert one's self strenuously to the fulfillment of a duty. [Obs.] "A just man that endeavoreth himself to leave all wickedness." Latimer.

To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.