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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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"Submit" Quotes from Famous Books

... not have been overburdened with money; but though it was very mortifying to me to comply with the demands of injustice, and so arbitrary an exaction, yet, thinking it was highly dangerous to make a foolish resistance, and irritate the lion when within the reach of his paw, I prepared to submit; and if Salim Daucari had not interposed, all my endeavours to mitigate this oppressive claim would have been of no avail, Salim at last prevailed upon Sambo to accept sixteen bars of European merchandize, and some powder and ball, as a complete payment ...

— Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa • Mungo Park

... I would not submit to capture and death without first wreaking vengeance. But vengeance on such a sheep as Scharnhoff? With Major Jimgrim still alive? What possessed you? Were you mad? I satisfied myself an hour ago that Scharnhoff was the bait, which the redoubtable Major Jimgrim would be watching. Perhaps ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... Kotzebue, or any of the whole breed of Kotzebues, whether dramatists or romantic writers or writers of romantic dramas, were ever admitted to any other shelf in the libraries of well-educated Germans than were occupied by their originals . . . in their mother country, we should submit to carry our own brat on our ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... demoralized him. It was wrong and mean in him to accept gifts of money from the people of Boston; it was wrong in them to submit to his merciless exactions. What need was there that their Senator should sometimes be a mendicant and sometimes a pauper? If he chose to maintain baronial state without a baron's income; if he chose to have two fancy farms of more than a thousand acres each; ...

— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

... of settling accounts was by producing a couple of fresh packs of cards, and offering to submit Harry's debt to the process of being doubled or acquitted. The poor chaplain had no more ready cash than Lord Castlewood's younger brother. Harry Warrington wanted to win the money of neither. Would he ...

— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

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