BE SUBJECT &c. adj.; be or lie at the mercy of; depend -, lean -, hang-upon; fall a prey to, fall under; play second fiddle.
be a -mere machine, - puppet, - doormat, - football; not dare to say one’s soul is his own; drag a chain. serve [See Servant]; obey [See Obedience]; submit [See Submission].
SUBJUGATE, subject, tame, break in; master [See Success]; tread -down, - under foot; weigh down; drag at one’s chariot wheel; reduce to -subjection, -slavery; enthrall or enthral, inthrall or inthral, bethrall, enslave, lead captive; take into custody (restrain) [See Restraint]; rule [See Authority]; drive into a corner, hold at the sword’s point; keep under; hold in -bondage, - leading strings, - swaddling clothes; have at one’s -apron strings, - beck and call; have in one’s pocket.
ADJECTIVE:
SUBJECT, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, servitorial [rare], under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, thrall [archaic]; servile, slavish [See Servant]; enslaved &c. v.; constrained [See Restraint]; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the -puppet, - sport, - plaything- of; under one’s -orders, - command, - thumb; used as a doormat, treated like dirt under one’s feet; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the -power, - hands, - clutches- of; at the feet of; in one’s pocket; tied to one’s apron strings; at one’s beck and call (obedient) [See Obedience]; liable [See Liability]; parasitical; stipendiary.
ADVERB:
UNDER; under -orders, - the heel, - command; at one’s orders; with no -mind, - will, - soul- of one’s own.
QUOTATIONS:
Slaves—in a land of light and law.—Whittier
Base in kind, and born to be a slave.—Cowper
Subjection, but requir’d with gentle sway.—Milton
The parrot of other men’s thinking.—Emerson
La Belle Dame sans Mercy Hath thee in thrall.—Keats
