Word Finder - subject

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Likely to be affected by or to experience something.

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He's subject to sneezing fits.

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Conditional upon.

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The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.

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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.

She forced the subject from her mind.

That was the end of the conversation and neither of them brought the subject up again that night.

It's a subject I'd rather not discuss.

He changed the subject before Dean could ask more.

Just approaching the subject was verboten.

Ethel was once again making a daily print appearance, concentrating on the subject of mystic tips, and soliciting comments from law enforcement agencies.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.

When we exhausted the subject, Betsy rose and took the floor.

The subject of Lori wasn't something she wanted to get back into.

Throughout the meal she led the subject a weaving path around the animals, the weather, and work on the nursery.

There was no point in discussing the subject further.

Any one acting against these provisions shall be subject to canonical penalties.

East Anglia was subject to the supremacy of the Mercian kings until 825, when its people slew Beornwulf of Mercia, and with their king acknowledged Ecgberht (Egbert) of Wessex as their lord.

I mention FactCheck and Snopes as two examples of the many enterprises on the Internet that subject every government utterance to scrutiny in something approximating real time.

In despair she had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity.

It was more than a year before she alluded to the subject again, and when she did return to it, her questions were numerous and persistent.

Every time the subject of your father came up, you got defensive and I backed off because I was afraid of losing you.

Fred O'Connor had arranged the affair and Dean had reluctantly agreed to subject himself to the scrutiny of the cream of the town's lady folk.

More than a week passed before the subject of Brandon Westlake was discussed in any detail.

Cromwell's personal character has been inevitably the subject of unceasing controversy.

On each subject there are in fact two pages.

The story of Silenus was often the subject of Athenian satyric drama.

This mosquito does not as a rule enter the large towns; but low-lying coast districts and ill-drained plains are especially subject to it.

Further references of great value will be found in the works of Bateson and Pearson referred to above, and in the annual volumes of the Zoological Record, particularly under the head " General Subject."

In exempt convents the head of the monastery or priory exercised jurisdiction subject to an appeal to the pope.

The subject was dealt with in the Constitutions of Clarendon, formally revoked after the murder of St Thomas of Canterbury.

Testamentary causes at first were subject to the concurrent jurisdiction of the spiritual and secular courts.

It provided for the visitation of the clergy by the bishop, and for the power of the clergy to exclude their lay folk from the Holy Communion, subject to appeal to the bishop. Both minor and major excommunication had been in use, and for a long time public penance was required.

We may also observe here that, like Epictetus, he is by no means so decided on the subject of suicide as the older Stoics.

These branch, and may be packed or interwoven to form a very solid structure; but each grows in length independently of the others and retains its own individuality, though its growth in those types with a definite external form is of course correlated with that of its neighbors and is subject to the laws governing the general form of the body.

The subject was practically dormant for nearly a century and a half, largely owing to the dominance of classificatory botany under the in.fluen.ce of Linnaeus.

Theoretically this branch of the subject should connect with and form the completion of morphological anatomy, but the field, has not yet been sufficiently explored to allow of the necessary synthesis.

It was fully recognized by its followers that the dominating influence in the structure and working of the body was the protoplasm, and the division of labor which it exhibited, with the accompanying or resulting differentiation into various tissues, was the special subject of investigation.

But the subject requires elucidation from both chemical and biological points of view.

During the 18th century more academic treatment of the subject began to replace the scattered notes.

This subject brings the domain of pathology, however, into touch with that of variation, and we are profoundly ignorant as to the complex of external conditions which would decide in any given case how far a variation in form would be prejudicial or otherwise to the continued existence of a species.

The method by which this is brought about is, however, the subject of much controversy.

Both in Persepolis and Pasargadae large masses of gold and silver from the tribute of the subject nations were treasured, as in Susa and Ecbatana.

Although the term has since been limited by some writers to one particular part of the subject, it seems best to maintain the original and literal meaning.

If a heretic in the Inquisition asked for absolution, he could receive it, but subject to a life imprisonment; but if his repentance were but feigned he could be at once condemned and handed over to the civil power for execution.

C. Druce's will; and the case became the subject of constant proceedings in the law-courts without result.

That is to say, the distribution of forms in time is a subject so much connected with the distribution of forms in space, that the one can hardly be separated from the other.

A small point in tie history of prayer, but one that has an interesting bearing on the subject of its relation to magic, is concerned with the custom of praying silently.

As the discussion of the Law led up to the compilation of the Mishnah, so the Mishnah itself became in turn the subject of further discussion.

Some of these were actual decisions of particular Geonim; others were an official summary of the discussion of the subject by the members of the School.

In one place the Christians were in utter bondage, in another they were simply tributary; still, everywhere the Mussulman Saracen formed the ruling class, the Christian Greek formed the subject class.

A court seems more natural where a chain of degrees leads gradually up from the lowest subject to the throne than when all beneath the throne are nearly on a level.

Yet the fascination of the subject will always revive the attempt.

Like this tragedy, The Broken Heart was probably founded upon some Italian or other novel of the day; but since in the latter instance there is nothing revolting in the main idea of the subject, the play commends itself as the most enjoyable, while, in respect of many excellences, an unsurpassed specimen of Ford's dramatic genius.

The subject of the play was no doubt suggested by the case of the reported witch, Elizabeth Sawyer, who was executed in 1621.