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which he had found at length perfectly subduable. Dr. 
Ward. 
SUBDU'AL, s. The act of subduing.—Good is not 
only produced by the subdual of the passions, but by the 
turbulent exercise of them. Warburton. 
To SUBDU'CE, or to Subdu'ct, v. a. [subduco, sub - 
ductus, Lat.] To withdraw ; to take away. 
Or nature fail’d me, and left some part 
Not proof enough such object to sustain ; 
Or from my side subducting, took perhaps 
More than enough. Milton. 
To subtract by arithmetical operation.—Take the other 
operation of arithmetic, subduction: if out of that sup¬ 
posed infinite multitude of antecedent generations we should 
subduce ten, the residue must be less by ten than it was 
before, and yet still the quotient must be infinite. Hale. 
SUBDU'CTION, s. The act of taking away. O God, 
thine arm is strong and mighty; all thy creatures rest them¬ 
selves upon that, and are comfortably sustained. O that we 
were not more capable of distrust, than thine omnipotent 
hand is of weariness and subduction l Bp. Hall. —Arith¬ 
metical subtraction.—Suppose we take the other operation 
of arithmetick, subduction ; if out of that infinite multitude 
of antecedent generations we should subduce ten, the residue 
must be less by ten than it was before that subduction, and 
yet still the quotient be infinite. Hale. 
To SUBDU'E, v. a. [from subdo, or subjugo, Lat.] 
To crush ; to oppress; to sink ; to overpower. 
Nothing could have subdu'd nature 
To such a lowness, but his unkind daughters. Shalcspeare. 
Them that rose up against thee, hast thou subdued under 
me. 2 Sam. 
If aught were worthy to subdue 
The soul of man. Milton. 
To conquer; to reduce under a new dominion.—Be fruit¬ 
ful, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. Gen. —Augus¬ 
tus Caesar subdued Egyptto the Roman empire. Peacham. 
—To tame; to subact; to break. 
Nor is’t unwholesome to subdue the land 
By often exercise; and where before 
You broke the earth, again to plow. May. 
SUBDU'EMENT, s. Conquest. Not used. 
I have seen thee, 
As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed, 
Bravely despising forfeits and subduements. Shalcspeare. 
SUBDU'ER, s. Conqueror; tamer. 
Great God of might, that reigneth in the mind. 
And all the body to thy hest dost frame ; 
Victor of gods, subduer of mankind. 
That dost the lions and fell tygers tame. 
Who can express the glory of thy might ? Spenser. 
SUBDUTLE, or Subdu'plicate, adj. [subduple, Fr., 
sub and duplus, Lat.] Containing one part of two.—The 
motion generated by the forces in the whole passage of the 
body or thing through that space, shall be in a subduplicate 
proportion of the forces. Newton. 
SUBER, in Botany, the ancient Latin name of the Cork 
Tree, of obscure and doubtful derivation. See Quercus. 
SUBERTHWAITE, or Sowberthwaite, a township 
of England, in Lancashire; 6J miles north-north-west of 
Ulveston. 
SUBFU'SK, adj. [ subfuscus , Lat.] Of a dark brown 
colour.—The Portuguese’s complexion was a little upon the 
subfus/c. Tatler. 
SUBJACENT, adj. [ subjacent , old French; subjacens, 
Lat.] Lying under.—The superficial parts of mountains are 
washed away by rains, and borne down upon the subjacent 
plains. Woodward. 
SUBIACO, a small town of the Ecclesiastical State, the 
capital of a district in the Campagna di Roma. It is situated 
SUB 
on an eminence near the river Teverone, and its early build¬ 
ings are supposed to have been erected out of the ruins of a 
villa of Nero; 12 miles north-west of Alatri, and 28 east of 
Rome. 
SUBIBA, Cape, a cape in the south-east of Spain, on the 
coast of Murcia. Lat. 37. 30. N. long. 1. 20. W. 
To SUBJECT, v. a. [subjectus, Latin.] To put under. 
The medal bears each form and name: 
In one short view, subjected to our eye, 
Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties lie. Pope. 
To reduce to submission; to make subordinate; to make 
submissive. 
Think not, young warriors, your diminish’d name 
Shall lose of lustre, by subjecting rage 
To the cool dictates of experienc’d age. Dry den. 
To enslave; to make obnoxious. 
I see thee, in that fatal hour, 
Subjected to the victor’s cruel power. 
Led hence a slave. Dry den. 
To expose; to make liable.—If the vessels yield, it sub¬ 
jects the person to all the inconveniencies of an erroneous 
circulation. Arbuthnot. —To submit; to make accountable. 
—God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the 
scrutiny of our thoughts, and confine himself to do nothing 
but what we must comprehend. Locke. —To make sub¬ 
servient.—[He] subjected to man’s service angel-wings. 
Milton. 
SU'BJECT, adj. [subject, old Fr., subjectus , Lat.] 
Placed or situated under. 
Th’ eastern tower, 
Whose height commands, as subject, all the vale 
To see the fight. Shakspeare. 
Living under the dominion of another. Exposed; liable; 
obnoxious.—Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds; Shak¬ 
speare. —Being that on which any action operates, whether 
intellectual or material.—I enter into the subject matter of 
my discourse. Dryden. 
SU'BJECT, s. [from the old Fr. subject, subgect, 
subgit. In the 28 Edw. III., and throughout the Rolls of 
Parliament, we may observe Fr. subgits.] One who lives 
under the dominion of another: opposed to governor. 
Never subject long’d to be a king. 
As I do long and wish to be a subject. Shakspeare. 
That on which any operation, either mental or material, 
is performed.—This subject for heroic song pleas’d me. 
Milton. —That in which any thing inheres or exists.—Anger 
is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weak¬ 
ness of those subjects in whom it reigns, children, women, 
old folks, sick folks. Bacon. —In Grammar. The nomi¬ 
native case to a verb is called the subject of the verb. 
SUBJE'CTION, s. The act of subduing.—After the con¬ 
quest of the kingdom and subjection of the rebels, enquiry 
was made who there were that fighting against the king had 
saved themselves by flight. Hale. — [subjection, old Fr.] 
The state of being under government.—Both in subjection 
now to sensual appetite. Milton. 
SUBJE'CTIVE, aclj. Relating not to the object, but the 
subject.—Certainty, according to the schools, is distinguished 
into objective and subjective: objective is when the pro¬ 
position is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we 
are certain of the truth of it. Watts. 
SUBJECTIVELY, adv. In relation to the subject.— 
The name of God, taken subjectively, is to be understood of 
Christ. Pearson. 
SUBINDICA'TION, s, [subindico, low Lat.] Significa¬ 
tion; the act of making known by signs. Unused. —The 
types of Christ served to the subindication and shadowing 
of heavenly things. Barrow. 
SUBINFEUDATION, in Law, was where the inferior 
lords, in imitation of their superiors, began to carve out and 
grant to other minuter estates than their own, to be held of 
themselves. 
