Esau was never subject to Jacob. Locke.

All human things are subject to decay. Dryden.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities. Titus iii. 1.

Syn. -- Liable; subordinate; inferior; obnoxious; exposed. See Liable.

Was never subject longed to be a king,
As I do long and wish to be a subject. Shak.

The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, human laws require it. Swift.

* In international law, the term subject is convertible with citizen.

Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate. Dryden.

The unhappy subject of these quarrels. Shak.

Writers of particular lives . . . are apt to be prejudiced in favor of their subject. C. Middleton.

The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is affirmed or denied. I. Watts.

That which manifests its qualities -- in other words, that in which the appearing causes inhere, that to which they belong - - is called their subject or substance, or substratum. Sir W. Hamilton.

The philosophers of mind have, in a manner, usurped and appropriated this expression to themselves. Accordingly, in their hands, the phrases conscious or thinking subject, and subject, mean precisely the same thing. Sir W. Hamilton.

The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song. Rockstro.

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.

God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts. Locke.

Subjected to his service angel wings. Milton.