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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Submitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Submitting.] [L. submittere; sub under + mittere to send: cf. F. soumettre. See Missile.]

1.To let down; to lower. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

2.To put or place under. [1913 Webster]

The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.— Chapman.[1913 Webster]

3.To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun. [1913 Webster]

Ye ben submitted through your free assent.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.— Gen. xvi. 9.[1913 Webster]
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.— Eph. v. 22.[1913 Webster]

4.To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object. [1913 Webster]

Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house.— Swift.[1913 Webster]
We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
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