v. [f. SUBJECT sb. + -IFY.] trans. To identify with or absorb in the subject; to make subjective.
1868. Contemp. Rev., VIII. 617. The oriental mind … subjectifies the individuality, or, to frame a word for the occasion, inwards it.
1895. Thinker, VII. 342. Warns every follower of Christ against all those malignant and destructive tendencies in human nature which subjectify themselves in the individual.
1900. G. Santayana, Poetry & Relig., 248. To subjectify the universe is not to improve it, much less to dissolve it.
Hence Subjectifying ppl. a., viewing things subjectively; Subjectification, the action of making or being made subjective.
1882. Traill, Sterne, xi. 170. The Uncle Toby of the subjectifying sentimentalist, surveying his character through the false medium of his own hypertrophied sensibilities.
1890. J. F. Smith, trans. Pfleiderer’s Develop. Theol., II. iv. 186. The idealistic subjectification of the idea of God on the lines of Feuerbach seems a necessary consequence of this.
1908. A. Wolf, in Hibbert Jrnl., Oct., 214. It would surely be far more accurate to treat sensations as the subjectification of qualities than to treat qualities as the hypostases of sensations.
