The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To let down; to lower. [Obs.]
Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
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To put or place under.
The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of submit English)
WordNet
v. refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency" [syn: subject]
put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: state, put forward, posit]
yield to the control of another
hand over formally [syn: present]
refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn: relegate, pass on]
submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: bow, defer, accede, give in]
accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" [syn: take, undergo]
make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF" [syn: put in]
make over as a return; "They had to render the estate" [syn: render]
accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile]
[also: submitting, submitted]
See submit
Usage examples of "submitting".
He treated their offer with contempt, and their demand with indignation, reproached the barbarians, that they were as ignorant of the arts of war as of the laws of peace, and finally dismissed them with the choice only of submitting to this unconditional mercy, or awaiting the utmost severity of his resentment.
In this perplexity he had recourse to his usual expedient, of submitting to the wisdom of Trajan an impartial, and, in some respects, a favorable account of the new superstition, requesting the emperor, that he would condescend to resolve his doubts, and to instruct his ignorance.
If they were sometimes tempted by a sally of passion, or by the hopes of concealment, to indulge their favorite superstition, their humble repentance disarmed the severity of the Christian magistrate, and they seldom refused to atone for their rashness, by submitting, with some secret reluctance, to the yoke of the Gospel.
Instead of submitting to the laws of her country which held as a fundamental maxim, that the succession could never pass from the lance to the distaff, the daughter of Theodoric conceived the impracticable design of sharing, with one of her cousins, the regal title, and of reserving in her own hands the substance of supreme power.
On this occasion, Ali was again blamed by his friends for submitting his right to the judgment of men, for recognizing their jurisdiction by accepting a place among the six electors.
Roman be disgraced by submitting to a priest, whose feet were kissed, and whose stirrup was held, by the successors of Charlemagne.
Pierre felt reluctant to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him.
Anatole returned and looked at Dolokhov, trying to give him his attention and evidently submitting to him involuntarily.
In spite of her one desire to see her brother as soon as possible, and her vexation that at the moment when all she wanted was to see him they should be trying to entertain her and pretending to admire her nephew, the princess noticed all that was going on around her and felt the necessity of submitting, for a time, to this new order of things which she had entered.
The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong.
Kutuzov was silent for a few seconds and then, submitting with evident reluctance to the duty imposed by his position, raised his head and began to speak.
Talleyrand, Chateaubriand, and the rest- but the sum of the components, that is, the interactions of Chateaubriand, Talleyrand, Madame de Stael, and the others, evidently does not equal the resultant, namely the phenomenon of millions of Frenchmen submitting to the Bourbons.
Scotland submitting entirely to the regent, gave not, during a long time, any further inquietude to Elizabeth.
Scotland, than disadvantages from submitting to a prince of that nation.
The pope found the necessity of submitting, and paid him from his treasury the sum demanded.