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1382. Wyclif, Heb. ii. 8. In that thing that he sugetide alle thingis to him, he lefte no thing vnsuget [v.r. vnsugetted] to him.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xlviii. 281. Not any of vs … can excuse himselfe to bee vnsubject to such naughtinesse.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxx. § 4. 294. Aboue the highest mooueable sphere there is nothing which feeleth alteration,… but all things immutable, vnsubiect to passion.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., V. lxiii. 75. ’Tis but a Creature, though its Essence be To change unsubject.
1672. Penn, Spir. Truth Vind., 36. Perhaps he hath followed an Erronious Judgment, or Unsubject Affection.
1754. Miss Boothby, in Life Johnson (1805), 75. Thus is whirled about this little machine [= Miss Boothby], which … contains a mind unsubject to rotation.
1788. D. Gilson, Serm. Pract. Subj., xiii. 368. Were the residence of man unsubject to mutation.
1842. Tennyson, Will Waterproof, 86. My head, which bears a season’d brain about, Unsubject to confusion.
1881. Cleland, Evol., Express. & Sens., p. x. No doubt spirit seems a vague and intangible entity because unsubject to those methods.
