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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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