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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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submitted

vb. (en-past of: submit)

WordNet
submit
  1. v. refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency" [syn: subject]

  2. put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: state, put forward, posit]

  3. yield to the control of another

  4. hand over formally [syn: present]

  5. refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn: relegate, pass on]

  6. submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: bow, defer, accede, give in]

  7. accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" [syn: take, undergo]

  8. make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF" [syn: put in]

  9. make over as a return; "They had to render the estate" [syn: render]

  10. accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile]

  11. [also: submitting, submitted]

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Usage examples of "submitted".

Those nations had submitted to the Roman power, but they seldom desired or deserved the freedom of the city: and it was remarked, that more than two hundred and thirty years elapsed after the ruin of the Ptolemies, before an Egyptian was admitted into the senate of Rome.

Syrians must have patiently submitted to the lust, the rapaciousness and the cruelty, of the faithful legions of Gaul.

The magnanimity of Julian was applauded and betrayed, by the arts of a noble Persian, who, in the cause of his country, had generously submitted to act a part full of danger, of falsehood, and of shame.

From the prudent conduct of Maximin, we may learn that the savage features of his character have been exaggerated by the pencil of party, that his passions, however impetuous, submitted to the force of reason, and that the barbarian possessed something of the generous spirit of Sylla, who subdued the enemies of Rome before he suffered himself to revenge his private injuries.

After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke.

But though Terminus had resisted the Majesty of Jupiter, he submitted to the authority of the emperor Hadrian.

Confident in the strength of their mountains, they were the last who submitted to the arms of Rome, and the first who threw off the yoke of the Arabs.

Ancient Germany, excluding from its independent limits the province westward of the Rhine, which had submitted to the Roman yoke, extended itself over a third part of Europe.

The desperate gamester, who had staked his person and liberty on a last throw of the dice, patiently submitted to the decision of fortune, and suffered himself to be bound, chastised, and sold into remote slavery, by his weaker but more lucky antagonist.

The Christians felt and confessed that such institutions might be necessary for the present system of the world, and they cheerfully submitted to the authority of their Pagan governors.

The Czar Peter, in the full possession of despotic power, submitted to the judgment of Russia, of Europe, and of posterity, the reasons which had compelled him to subscribe the condemnation of a criminal, or at least of a degenerate son.

The vanquished Germans had submitted to the just but humiliating condition of preparing and conveying the necessary materials.

The complaints and mutual accusations which assailed the throne of Constantine, as soon as the death of Maxentius had submitted Africa to his victorious arms, were ill adapted to edify an imperfect proselyte.

They cheerfully accepted the offer of a general pardon from a prince whom they could trust, submitted to the restraints of military discipline, and retained only their implacable hatred to the person and government of Constantius.

In this fruitful and pleasant country, the Romans were plentifully supplied with water and forage: and several forts, which might have embarrassed the motions of the army, submitted, after some resistance, to the efforts of their valor.