10. (Fine Arts) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.

Subject
(Sub*ject") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subjected ; p. pr. & vb. n. Subjecting.]

1. To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.

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.

2. To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.

3. To submit; to make accountable.

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

4. To make subservient.

Subjected to his service angel wings.
Milton.

5. To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.

Subjected
(Sub*ject"ed) a.

1. Subjacent. "Led them direct . . . to the subjected plain." [Obs.] Milton.

2. Reduced to subjection; brought under the dominion of another.

3. Exposed; liable; subject; obnoxious.


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