The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subject-matter \Sub"ject-mat`ter\, n. 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.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of subject matter English)
Usage examples of "subject-matter".
The subject-matter is only transitorily within the State and has no permanent habitat therein.
For all the injury which you suffer is this: you have lost the subject-matter of a benefit, not the benefit itself, for you possess unimpaired the best part of it, in that you have given it.
But the characteristic writers of the time, people like Auden and Spender and MacNeice, have been didactic, political writers, aesthetically conscious, of course, but more interested in subject-matter than in technique.
Claudius himself who is writing this book, and no secretary of his, and not one of those official annalists, either, to whom public men are in the habit of communicating their recollections, in the hope that elegant writing will eke out meagreness of subject-matter and flattery soften vices.
In criticisms of Hopkins, therefore, you will usually find all the emphasis laid on his use of language and his subject-matter very lightly touched on.
These were the curious questions he had come so far to investigate, for which the fakirs and dervishes of every land gave such fanciful reasons: and he saw he would have no difficulty in picking up abundant examples of his subject-matter everywhere in England.
Perform work involving the development and application of mathematical methods for the investigation and numerical and analytical solution of cryptologic problems in various subject-matter fields where the exactitude of the relationships, the rigor and economy of mathematical operation, and the logical necessity of results are the controlling consideration.
An artist has the right to choose his own subject-matter, even if he takes it from the nether pits of Limbo and Erebus.
Now, the subject-matter for me to work upon is my own mind, as wood is for a carpenter or leather for a shoemaker.
Mr Menon's book is incidentally a short biography of Yeats, but he is above all interested in Yeats's philosophical "system", which in his opinion supplies the subject-matter of more of Yeats's poems than is generally recognized.