subject
/ˈsʌb.d͡ʒɛkt/ adjective A2- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable. · a country subject to extreme heat· Menu listings and prices are subject to change.
- Conditional upon something; used with to. · The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state. · , Book I Esau was never subject to Jacob.
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It was spoken with fervour and feeling, and yet Inspector MacDonald could not dismiss the subject.
Gardiner would have been highly gratified by her niece’s beginning the subject.
Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation, that he never again distressed himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth, by introducing the subject of it; and she was pleased to find that she had said enough to keep him quiet.
This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river.
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