Subjecting
[sʌbdʒiktɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subject
Inputed by Enoch
Examples
- Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Could one never do the simplest, the most harmless thing, without subjecting one's self to some odious conjecture? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- His notebook show s that he was now subjecting to examination the religious and political opinions of his time. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Reel machines are then employed to transfer the hides from one vat to another, thus subjecting them to liquors of increasing strength. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With the storage battery, it may be regenerated at will by simply subjecting it to an electric current from a dynamo. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Their domineering impulses find satisfaction in conquering things, in subjecting brute forces to human purposes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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