subjugate

Adjective

subjugate (not comparable)

1. Forced into submission; subjugated.
   • For al their hye mynde they be now ſubiugate: […]1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan...
   • 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...1612 (indicated as 1611), Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Lanca-shire”, in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine: Presenting an Exact Geography of the Kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland...

Noun

subjugate (plural subjugates)

1. (rare) A person forced into submission; a subject.
   • [T]he home-loving Phillipino succumbed—the independent agent, under the influence of the "final cry," became the subjugate.1907, John J[ames] Van Nostrand, chapter 3, in Prefatory Lessons in a Mechanical Philosophy (Nature’s Legal Code): The Philosophy of the Home, Chicago, Ill.: [T]he author […], →OCLC, page 15

Verb

UK/ˈsʌbd͡ʒʊɡeɪt/US/ˈsʌbd͡ʒəˌɡeɪt/

subjugate (third-person singular simple present subjugates, present participle subjugating, simple past and past participle subjugated)

1. (transitive) To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).
   • O fav'rite Virgin, that haſt vvarm'd the Breaſt, / VVhoſe ſov'reign Dictates ſubjugate the Eaſt!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...
   • 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.1782, William Cowper, “Hope”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 151

   Synonyms:

   enthrall, subdue, underyoke, vanquish

2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate.
   • [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, […][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
   • [H]is ſoul hath ſubjugated Martius ſoul: […]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...
3. (transitive) To tame (an animal); to domesticate.
   • 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...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...
   • [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.1831, John Epps, chapter VII, in The Life of John Walker, M.D., […], London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 191
4. (figuratively, obsolete, rare, transitive) To put (one's neck or shoulders) under a metaphorical yoke.
   • Let ſuch Princes I ſay adhere to the Pope, & ſubiugate their neckes to his trampling, […]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...