All 3 Uses of
subjugate
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Knights who claimed to be "searching for the chalice" were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned nonbelievers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine."†
Chpt 55-56
- Most of Disney's hidden messages dealt with religion, pagan myth, and stories of the subjugated goddess.†
Chpt 61-62 *
- I'm not sure if your grandfather ever mentioned it when you played Tarot with him, Sophie, but this game is a 'flashcard catechism' into the story of the Lost Bride and her subjugation by the evil Church.†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
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(subjugate) to force into submissionin various senses, including:
- when a people are defeated in battle and oppressed -- as in "The Romans subjugated most of Europe."
- when something is treated as less important than something else -- as in "subjugate the desires of the individual to the desires of the state," or "subjugate instinct to reason"