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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Submit \Sub*mit"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
submit
verb
1: 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}] [also: {submitting}, {submitted}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
submitted See {submit}
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