subjectify

English

Etymology

From subject +‎ -ify. Attested since the 19th century.

Verb

subjectify (third-person singular simple present subjectifies, present participle subjectifying, simple past and past participle subjectified)

1. (transitive) To turn into a subject.
   • 1858, Calcutta Review, volume 31, page 39:

     Leyden was essentially of the old and dying school, a versifier like Pope, but not a poet, a jingler of rhymes and a selecter of appropriate epithets and artistic scenes, but destitute of self-unconsciousness, of natural elegance, of aesthetic culture, of deep feeling, of ability to "subjectify" himself, of the gift, in a word, that raises man nearer to God than any, save inspiration, our race has every enjoyed.