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(International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain. Esau was never subject to Jacob. Locke.

ome statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science makes progress in any subject-matter, poetry recedes from it. J. H. Newman.

Subjacent. "Led them direct . . . to the subjected plain." [Obs.] Milton.

The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale.

One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.

Of or pertaining to a subject.

Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.

One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.

Having no subject.

Quality of being subject. [R.]

Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.

A second subjection.

The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. A B C book, a primer. Shak.

Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson.

or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.

The rudiments of any subject. Lowell.

n the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the pers…

or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.