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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Subjected  \Sub*ject"ed\,  a. 
  1.  Subjacent.  ``Led  them  direct  .  .  .  to  the  subjected 
  plain.''  [Obs.]  --Milton. 
 
  2.  Reduced  to  subjection;  brought  under  the  dominion  of 
  another. 
 
  3.  Exposed;  liable;  subject;  obnoxious. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Subject  \Sub*ject"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Subjected};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Subjecting}.] 
  1.  To  bring  under  control,  power,  or  dominion;  to  make 
  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  ?nslaved,  who  is 
  so  in  his  understanding.  --Locke. 
 
  2.  To  expose;  to  make  obnoxious  or  liable;  as  credulity 
  subjects  a  person  to  impositions. 
 
  3.  To  submit;  to  make  accountable. 
 
  God  is  not  bound  to  subject  his  ways  of  operation  to 
  the  scrutiny  of  our  thoughts.  --Locke. 
 
  4.  To  make  subservient. 
 
  Subjected  to  his  service  angel  wings.  --Milton. 
 
  5.  To  cause  to  undergo;  as  to  subject  a  substance  to  a  white 
  heat;  to  subject  a  person  to  a  rigid  test. 




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