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Webster 1913 Edition
Subject-matter
Sub′ject-matˊter
,Noun.
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.