C. Middleton.

6. (Logic & Gram.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated;

the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as,

the nominative case is the subject of the verb.

The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is

affirmed or denied.

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