a1866 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) 110 Affection or good-will that is distinctive..has a double dark side, one toward the non-subjects of it, the other towards rivals in the affection.

1908 Mind 17 485 That is all the ‘stimulus’ is to begin with; it is non-subject, is ‘other’.

1958 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 52 440 A prescription for a public nuisance may for good reasons be denied or granted as between a sovereign and the sovereign's own citizen; but these same reasons have no application between an independent sovereign and a non-subject.

1968 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 34 322 The impression that the author has been struggling manfully to write a monograph on a nonsubject.

1985 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 44 748 If a non-subject is relativized, then the clause has in effect two topics.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 Nov. 6/2 Bloom sheds a little light on the murky confusion that follows, but not enough to make clear why he chose to struggle with this non-subject in the first place.

1881 Times 21 Dec. 5/1 We may be certain that some Mostakel has carried to the remotest tribes..the news of the defeat..of that Roustan Pasha who till then had been the terror of the non-subject tribes of the desert.

1886 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Provinces Rom. Empire II. 317 The military arrangements were chiefly designed..to check the irruption of the non-subject tribes.

1934 Proc. Ann. Meeting Amer. Assoc. Univ. Teachers of Insurance 2 6 To balance the experience rating plan within itself by arbitrary factors, places an unwarranted burden on the subject risks and permits the group of non-subject risks to obtain insurance at less than cost.

1937 B. E. Wyatt & W. H. Wandel Social Security Act in Operation xii. 183 The purposes of this provision are..to accommodate those firms which have employees in both subject and nonsubject employment and wish to treat all their employees alike.

2001 NBER Reporter (Nexis) 22 June 36 Duties affect both the trade from subject countries and the imports from non-subject countries.

1933 Philos. Rev. 42 70 Any non-subject word which is used as a subject changes its meaning according to the scholastic principle of suppositio materialis.

1980 D. Crystal First Dict. Linguistics & Phonetics 359 The rule of tough-movement took the non-subject noun phrase from the extraposed complement..and substituted it for the initial subject pronoun of the sentence as a whole.