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Submit   /səbmˈɪt/   Listen
verb
Submit  v. t.  (past & past part. submitted; pres. part. submitting)  
1.
To let down; to lower. (Obs.) "Sometimes the hill submits itself a while."
2.
To put or place under. "The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut."
3.
To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; often with the reflexive pronoun. "Ye ben submitted through your free assent." "The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands." "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands."
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. "Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house." "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."



Submit  v. i.  
1.
To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender. "The revolted provinces presently submitted."
2.
To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce. "To thy husband's will Thine shall submit."
3.
To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring. "Our religion requires from us... to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death."






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... Plan of Union.%—The picture was apt for the following reason. The Lords of Trade in London had ordered the colonies to send delegates to Albany to make a treaty with the Iroquois Indians, and to this congress Franklin purposed to submit a plan for union against the French. The plan drawn up by the congress was not approved by the colonies, so the scheme of ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... yet so humble; so weak in all but the desire to do well; so young to be tormented with such fateful issues, and withal so steadfast in the grateful yet remorseful tenderness she bore her husband, that though sorely disappointed and not one whit convinced, Warwick could only submit to this woman-hearted child, and love her with redoubled love, both for what she was and what she ...
— Moods • Louisa May Alcott

... youthful companion and prisoner, recording, with some interesting circumstances, the very words of knightly and royal admonition with which the distinguished honour was conferred. "Early on a summer's morning, the vigil of St. John, the King marched directly to Macmore[46], who would neither submit, (p. 040) nor obey him in any way, but affirmed that he was himself the rightful king of Ireland, and that he would never cease from war and the defence of his country till death. Then the King prepared ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler

... the other day why it was that, having such a rare critic at first hand as my father, I did not more often submit my manuscripts to his judgment. It would be difficult to say precisely why. The professor of rhetoric was a very busy man; and at that time the illness which condemned him to thirty years of invalid suffering was beginning to make itself manifest. I can ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various

... being lost, Dick and the others could do no more than submit to being pushed outside the cabin, Hen Dutcher following and making faces ...
— The Grammar School Boys Snowbound - or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports • H. Irving Hancock


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