subjugate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English subiugat(e), subjugat(e) (“made submissive; obedient”), the past participle of subiugaten, subjugaten (“to conquer; to subdue”), from Latin subiugātus, subjugātus (“subjugated”), the perfect passive participle of subiugō, subjugō (“to make subject, subjugate”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘under’) + iugō, jugō (“to join; to yoke”) (from iugum (“collar for a horse; yoke for cattle”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Doublet of yoke.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: subjugates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subjugating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subjugated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subjugated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: subjugate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: subjugate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: subjugated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: subjugate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: subjugatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: subjugated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: subjugatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: subjugates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subjugateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: subjugated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: subjugate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: subjugated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: subjugate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: subjugated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: subjugate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: subjugating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subjugated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Forced into submission; subjugated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For al their hye mynde they be now ſubiugate: […]
After the Romans, the Saxons brought it [Lancashire] vnder their protection, and held it for a part of their Northumbrian Kingdome, till it vvas firſt made ſubiugate to the Inuaſion of the Danes, and then conquered by the victorious Normans, vvhoſe poſterities from thence are branched further into England.
[…] Could it be, that the whole earthly course of one so gentle, good, and self-denying, was subjugate to such a wretch as that!
Her heart was so black and tangled in the teaching, her personal self was shut in prison, abolished, she was subjugate to a bad, destructive will.
Each nationalist struggle assumed the complexion of a Communist versus non-Communist conflict rather than one between a colonial imperium and a subjugate indigenous population intent on their independence.
gloss: To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: O fav'rite Virgin, that haſt vvarm'd the Breaſt, / VVhoſe ſov'reign Dictates ſubjugate the Eaſt!
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.
At this the Emir marvelled beyond measure and said, "Glory be to God who subjugateth His creatures to the dominion of Death!"
So the battle went on till her heart was sick. She had several more boys to subjugate before she could establish herself.
[I]nstead of homogeneity, we see powerful asymmetries – men subjugating women, whites subjugating blacks, Christians subjugating Jews, Jews subjugating Arabs, and so on.
Other nationalisms aimed at liberating subjugated peoples who spoke the same language and lived in the same territory.
gloss: To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [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, […]
[H]is ſoul hath ſubjugated Martius ſoul: […]
[…] 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.
[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.
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.
gloss: To tame (an animal); to domesticate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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: […]
[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.
gloss: To put (one's neck or shoulders) under a metaphorical yoke.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
rare
transitive
examples: Let ſuch Princes I ſay adhere to the Pope, & ſubiugate their neckes to his trampling, […]
Related words: conjugate
jugate
subjugation
subjugator
subjuge
Derived words: assubjugate
resubjugate
subjugated
subjugating
subjugator
unsubjugate
unsubjugated
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