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verb

Submit v. t. (past & past part. submitted; pres. part. submitting)

1.

To let down; to lower. (Obs.) "Sometimes the hill submits itself a while."

2.

To put or place under. "The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut."

3.

To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; often with the reflexive pronoun. "Ye ben submitted through your free assent." "The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands." "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands."

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." "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."

Submit v. i.

1.

To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender. "The revolted provinces presently submitted."

2.

To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce. "To thy husband's will Thine shall submit."

3.

To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring. "Our religion requires from us... to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death."

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... folks's love o' theirselves, and the money as is to go into other folks's pockets. I know there's them as is born t' own the land, and them as is born to sweat on't"—here Mrs. Poyser paused to gasp a little—"and I know it's christened folks's duty to submit to their betters as fur as flesh and blood 'ull bear it; but I'll not make a martyr o' myself, and wear myself to skin and bone, and worret myself as if I was a churn wi' butter a-coming in't, for no landlord in England, not if he was ...

— Adam Bede • George Eliot

... to the Austrian metropolis. Seven hours' ride in what the Austrians are bold enough to term an express-train covers the distance between Vienna and Pesth, yet there seems to be an abyss somewhere on the route which the inhabitants are afraid of. Pride, a haughty determination not to submit to centralization, and content with their surroundings make the Hungarians sparing of intercourse with their Austrian neighbors. "We send them prime ministers, and now and then we allow them a glimpse of some of our beauties in one ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various

... in opposition to Davis he had at that time, he said, urged an obligatory army which the States should be required to raise. The Confederate Administration, however, had defeated his scheme. Since then the situation had changed and had become so serious that now there was no choice but to submit to military necessity. He regarded the general conscription law as "absolutely necessary to save" the Confederacy "from utter devastation if not final subjugation. Right or wrong, the policy of the Administration had left us no ...

— The Day of the Confederacy - A Chronicle of the Embattled South, Volume 30 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Nathaniel W. Stephenson

... small class of men who, either from the most worldly of motives or, in the very opposite extreme, from motives so high that they will not permit personal pride to stand in the way of the real union of hearts, submit to the indignity of becoming pensioners ...

— The Etiquette of To-day • Edith B. Ordway

... to defy just one half-grown lad, whereas if she believed herself to be up against the whole troop she would submit with the best ...

— Pathfinder - or, The Missing Tenderfoot • Alan Douglas

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