subjectify

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verb

To turn into a subject.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

verbsubjectify (third-person singular simple present subjectifies, present participle subjectifying, simple past and past participle subjectified)

present singular third person subjectifies · participle present subjectifying · participle past subjectified · past subjectified

  1. transitiveTo turn into a subject.
    1 more example

    Leyden was essentially of the old and dying school, a versifier like Pope, but not a poet, a jingler of rhymes and a selecter of appropriate epithets and artistic scenes, but destitute of self-unconsciousness, of natural elegance, of aesthetic culture, of deep feeling, of ability to "subjectify" himself, of the gift, in a word, that raises man nearer to God than any, save inspiration, our race has every enjoyed.

    1858, Calcutta Review, volume 31, page 39

Origin

From subject + -ify. Attested since the 19th century.

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