subjugates

Verb

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...

   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
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...
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...

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