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▪ I. unˈsubject, a. (un-1 7.)
1382Wyclif Heb. ii. 8 In that thing that he sugetide alle thingis to him, he lefte no thing vnsuget [v.r. vnsugetted] to him. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xlviii. 281 Not any of vs..can excuse himselfe to bee vnsubject to such naughtinesse. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxx. §4. 294 Aboue the highest mooueable sphere there is nothing which feeleth alteration,..but all things immutable, vnsubiect to passion. 1652Benlowes Theoph. v. lxiii. 75 'Tis but a Creature, though its Essence be To change unsubject. 1672Penn Spir. Truth Vind. 36 Perhaps he hath followed an Erronious Judgment, or Unsubject Affection. 1754Miss Boothby in Life Johnson (1805) 75 Thus is whirled about this little machine [= Miss Boothby], which..contains a mind unsubject to rotation. 1788D. Gilson Serm. Pract. Subj. xiii. 368 Were the residence of man unsubject to mutation. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof 86 My head, Which bears a season'd brain about, Unsubject to confusion. 1881Cleland Evol., Express. & Sens. p. x, No doubt spirit seems a vague and intangible entity because unsubject to those methods. ▪ II. unsubject, v. (un-2 6 b.)
1647Digges Unlawf. Taking Arms 114 Women cannot unmarry, nor the people unsubject themselves. |