Because the subjection of the body to the will is by natural
necessity, the subjection of the will unto God voluntary, we stand
in need of direction after what sort our wills and desires may be
rightly conformed to His.
Hooker.
Sub"ject*ist (?), n. (Metaph.) One skilled in subjective philosophy; a
subjectivist.
Sub*jec"tive (?), a. [L. subjectivus: cf. F. subjectif.] 1. Of or
pertaining to a subject.
2. Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness,
in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or
intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material
excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states.
In the philosophy of the mind, subjective denotes what is to be
referred to the thinking subject, the ego; objective, what belongs to
the object of thought, the non- ego. See Objective, a., 2. Sir W.
Hamilton.
3. (Lit. & Art) Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of
a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective
writer.
Syn. -- See Objective.
Subjective sensation (Physiol.), one of the sensations occurring when
stimuli due to internal causes excite the nervous apparatus of the
sense organs, as when a person imagines he sees figures which have no
objective reality.
-- Sub*jec"tive*ly, adv. -- Sub*jec"tive*ness, n.
Sub*jec"tiv*ism (?), n. (Metaph.) Any philosophical doctrine which
refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states;
egoism.
Sub*jec"tiv*ist, n. (Metaph.) One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.
Sub`jec*tiv"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being subjective;
character of the subject.
Sub"ject*less (?), a. Having no subject.
Sub"ject-mat`ter (?), n. The matter or thought presented for
consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the
object of thought or study.
As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as
having a regard thereto.
Blackstone.
As science makes progress in any subject-matter, poetry recedes
from it.
J. H. Newman.