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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SUBJECT-MATTER
SUBJECT-MATTER
Sub
"ject-mat `
ter,
n.
Defn:
The
matter
or
thought
presented
for
consideration
in
some
statement
or
discussion;
that
which
is
made
the
object
of
thought
or
study.
As
to
the
subject-matter,
words
are
always
to
be
understood
as
having
a
regard
thereto.
Blackstone.
As
science
makes
progress
in
any
subject-matter,
poetry
recedes
from
it.
J. H. Newman.