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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.

 

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