subjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/
ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒəˌɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡət/
ipa: /ˈsʌbd͡ʒəɡət/
Forms: form: subjugates
form: subjugating
form: subjugated
form: subjugated
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: subjugate
form: subjugate
form: subjugated
form: subjugate
form: subjugatest
form: subjugated
form: subjugatedst
form: subjugates
form: subjugateth
form: subjugated
form: subjugate
form: subjugated
form: subjugate
form: subjugated
form: subjugate
form: -
form: subjugating
form: subjugated
Etymology: From Late Middle English subiugate, subjugaten (“to conquer; to subdue”), from Latin subiugātus, subjugātus (“subjugated”): see further at etymology 1. The verb is attested slightly later than the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: O fav'rite Virgin, that haſt vvarm'd the Breaſt, / VVhoſe ſov'reign Dictates ſubjugate the Eaſt!
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 438:
text: From infancy through childhood's giddy maze, / Frovvard at ſchool, and fretful in his plays, / The puny tyrant burns to ſubjugate / The free republic of the vvhip-gig ſtate.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Hope”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 151:
text: At this the Emir marvelled beyond measure and said, "Glory be to God who subjugateth His creatures to the dominion of Death!"
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The City of Brass. [Night 576.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume VI, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 115:
text: So the battle went on till her heart was sick. She had several more boys to subjugate before she could establish herself.
ref: 1915 September 30, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Man’s World”, in The Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1915, →OCLC, page 382:
text: [I]nstead of homogeneity, we see powerful asymmetries – men subjugating women, whites subjugating blacks, Christians subjugating Jews, Jews subjugating Arabs, and so on.
ref: 2002, Farhad Dalal, “Peeking into the Consulting Room”, in Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology, Hove, East Sussex; New York, N.Y.: Brunner-Routledge, →ISBN, paragraph 6, page 78:
synonyms: enthrall
subdue
underyoke
vanquish
glosses: To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).
examples: text: [H]e wil needes haue ſubiects, before he can ſubiugate his affections, and couets the office of a commander, before he hath learned to ſtoupe to the admonitions of his elders, […]
ref: [1589?], Cutbert Curry-knaue [pseudonym; Thomas Nashe], An Almond for a Parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues Almes. […], [London]: […] [Eliot’s Court Press], →OCLC, folio 9, verso:
text: [H]is ſoul hath ſubjugated Martius ſoul: […]
ref: c. 1608–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, “Four Playes, or Morall Representations, in One”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:
text: […] Sulphur, is not as much ſubjugated by the Form of the intire Body, as that of the purgative portion of Rhubarb, by the Form of that Drugg.
ref: 1667, Robert Boyle, “Free Considerations about Subordinate Formes, as They are Wont to be Maintain’d by Divers Learned Modernes”, in The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy,) Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments, […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 298:
text: [H]is love and his hatred were of that passionate fervour which subjugates all the rest of the being, and makes a man sacrifice himself to his passion as if it were a deity to be worshipped with self-destruction.
ref: 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “After-thoughts”, in Romola. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book II, page 29:
text: Mr [John Stuart] Stuart-Glennie regards the slave-morality as an invention of the superior white race to subjugate the minds of the inferior races whom they wished to exploit, and who would have destroyed them by force of numbers if their minds had not been subjugated.
ref: 1905, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics”, in John Bull’s Other Island and Major Barbara: Also How He Lied to Her Husband, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1907, →OCLC, Act, page 153:
glosses: To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate.
examples: text: Though of all other viſible Creatures Man ſeems the leaſt provided vvith natural offenſive Organs, yet by the advantage of his intellectual Faculty and that admirable Organum organorum his Hand, he is infinitely advantaged vvith artificial helps to defend himſelf, and ſubjugate the moſt contumacious and furious Brute: […]
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “A Farther Enquiry Touching the End of the Formation of Man, so Far as the Same may be Collected by Natural Light and Ratiocination”, in The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC, section IV, page 371:
text: [T]hou subjugatest or destroyest the beasts that would annoy thee, and convertest to thy use all their spoils, as well as all vegetable productions.
ref: 1831, John Epps, chapter VII, in The Life of John Walker, M.D., […], London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 191:
glosses: To tame (an animal); to domesticate.
examples: text: Let ſuch Princes I ſay adhere to the Pope, & ſubiugate their neckes to his trampling, […]
ref: 1611, [attributed to Francis Burton], “A Post-script to the Wel Affected Reader”, in The Fierie Tryall of Gods Saints; […] as a Counter-poyze to I[ohn] W[ilsof] Priest His English Martyrologe. And the Detestable Ends of Popish Traytors: […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot and Thomas Creede] for Arthur Iohnson, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: To put (one's neck or shoulders) under a metaphorical yoke.
Derived terms: word: assubjugate
word: resubjugate
word: subjugated
word: subjugating
word: unsubjugate
Related terms: word: conjugate
word: jugate
word: subjugation
word: subjugator
word: subjuge