the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Subject
King James Dictionary
or SUBJECT, a.
1. Placed or situate under.
--The eastern tower whose height commands, as subject, all the vale, to see the fight.
2. Being under the power and dominion of another as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
Esau was never subject to Jacob.
3. Exposed liable from extraneous causes as a country subject to extreme heat or cold.
4. Liable from inherent causes prone disposed.
All human things are subject to decay.
5. Being that on which nay thing operates, whether intellectual or material as the subject-matter of a discourse.
6. Obedient. Titus 3 . Colossians 2 .
SUBJECT, n. L.
1. One that owes allegiance to a sovereign and is governed by his laws. The natives of Great Britain are subjects of the British government. The natives of the United States, and naturalized foreigners, are subjects of the federal government. Men in free governments, are subjects as well as citizens as citizens, they enjoy rights and franchises as subjects, they are bound to obey the laws.
The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, and human laws require it.
2. That on which any mental operation is performed that which is treated or handled as a subject of discussion before the legislature a subject of negotiation.
This subject for heroic song pleasd me.
The subject of a proposition is that concerning which any thing is affirmed or denied.
3. That on which any physical operation is performed as a subject for dissection or amputation.
4. That in which any thing inheres or exists.
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns.
5. The person who is treated of the hero of a piece.
Authors of biography are apt to be prejudiced in favor of their subject.
6. In grammar, the nominative case to a verb passive.
SUBJECT,
1. To bring under the power or dominion of. Alexander subjected a great part of the civilized world to his dominion.
Firmness of mind that subjects every gratification of sense to the rule of right reason--
2. To put under or within the power of.
In one short view subjected to our eye, gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie.
3. To enslave to make obnoxious.
He is the most subjected, the most enslaved, who is so in his understanding.
4. To expose to make liable. Credulity subjects a person to impositions.
5. To submit to make accountable.
God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts--
6. To make subservient.
--Subjected to his service angel wings.
7. To cause to undergo as, to subject a substance to a white heat to subject it to a rigid test.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Subject'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/subject.html.
