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submitting |
1 definition found 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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