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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 Locke.

t, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed. Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime. Prior. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Longfellow.

The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).

To suggest; to prompt. [R.] "The submonishing inclinations of my senses." T. Granger.

Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.

trumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley. There is a regular subordination and subserviency among all the parts to beneficial ends. Cheyne.

haracterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle. [In this sense now commonly written subtle.] The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtile, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humor and so little wit in their literature. The genius of the Italians, on the contra…

Nicely; delicately. In the nice bee what sense so subtly true. Pope. Subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind. Hawthorne.

; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed. "[It] hath such senses as we have." Shak.

A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2. [Theatrical Cant]

olute superlative, a superlative in an absolute rather than in a comparative or exclusive sense. See Elative.

Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.

ear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.

; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly. Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres could not but clash. De Quincey.

Net having the sense of hearing; deaf. [Obs.] "A surd . . . generation." Sir T. Browne.

To surpass; to exceed. Spenser. What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton.

laimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to revea…

The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic, or antipathetic, symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advan…