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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
Sometimes the hill submits itself a while --Dryden.
2. To put or place under
The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with
ruthless steel he cut. --Chapman.
3. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will or
authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
Ye ben submitted through your free assent.
--Chaucer.
The angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy
mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. --Gen.
xvi. 9.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.
--Eph. v. 22.
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. --Swift.
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.
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