1. Placed or set underneath; underlying, subjacent. Obs. or arch.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 10/3. The foresayed subiacent or subiectede membrane.
1667. Milton, P. L., XII. 640. The hastning Angel … Led them direct, and down the Cliff as fast To the subjected Plaine.
1673. Hale, Ess. Fluid Bodies, 5. The Gravitation or non-Gravitation of Fluids upon subjected Bodies.
1678. H. Vaughan, Thalia Rediv., Retirement, 225. Where he might view the boundless skie,… Subjected hills, trees, meads, and flowers.
1718. Prior, Solomon, I. 432. Where … Ascends my Soul? what sees She White and Great Amidst subjected Seas?
1820. Wiffen, Aonian Hours (ed. 2), 8. The stockdove’s plaintive wail Wins to the curious ear o’er the subjected vale.
† b. Subjected matter = SUBJECT-MATTER. Obs.
1697. trans. Burgersdicius’ Logic, I. viii. 26. Creation is nothing else but the producing of something out of nothing; that is, out of no Subjected Matter.
2. Reduced to a state of subjection; under the dominion or authority of another. Hence, submissive, obedient.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. xix. (1912), 123. With all subjected humblenes.
1595. Shaks., John, I. i. 264. Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, Subiected tribute to commanding loue.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., IV. xix. § 6. He is certainly the most subjected, the most enslaved, who is so in his Understanding.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, II. (Globe), 386. All the five most willing,… subjected Creatures, rather like Slaves than Wives.
1763. J. Brown, Poetry & Mus., xi. 193. The Patrician Ladies, who lately had reveled amidst the Spoils of a subjected World, now begged before their own Doors.
1815. J. Cormack, Abol. Fem. Infanticide Guzerat, ii. 34. That a subsidiary and subjected tribe should have cherished such extravagant notions of their own superiority.
1876. Ruskin, Fors Clav., VI. 88. To comply in all sweet and subjected ways with the wishes and habits of their parents.
1907. Bp. of Exeter, in Trans. Devon. Assoc., XXXIX. 48–9. The Welsh British had themselves absorbed a subjected race.
Hence Subjectedly adv., Subjectedness.
1681. R. Fleming, Fulfilling Script., III. iii. (1726), 377. To dig in the town ditches, with a sweet subjectedness of spirit.
1839. New Monthly Mag., LV. 44. Licking his face, and subjectedly, as if in token of homage.
1885. Meredith, Diana, xxxviii. Notwithstanding her subjectedness to the nerves.
