That which is placed
under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something
else.
Specifically: One who is under the
authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes
allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject
of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the
United States.
That which is subjected, or submitted to,
any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead
body used for the purpose of dissection.
That which is brought under thought or
examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning
which anything is said or done.
The person who is treated of; the hero of a
piece; the chief character.
That of which
anything is affirmed or predicated] the theme of a proposition or
discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the
subject of the verb.
That in which any quality, attribute, or
relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of
these appertain; substance; substratum.
Hence, that substance or being which is
conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or
principal; the ego. Cf.
Object,
n.,
2.
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