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. Submit
(Sub*mit"), v. i.
1. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
The revolted provinces presently submitted.
C. Middleton. 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.
Milton. 3. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death.
Rogers. Submitter
(Sub*mit"ter) n. One who submits. Whitlock.
Submonish
(Sub*mon"ish) v. t. [L. submonere. See Summon, and -ish.] To suggest; to prompt. [R.]
"The submonishing inclinations of my senses." T. Granger.
Submonition
(Sub`mo*ni"tion) n. [LL. submonitio.] Suggestion; prompting. [R.] T. Granger.
Submucous
(Sub*mu"cous) a. (Anat.) Situated under a mucous membrane.
Submultiple
(Sub*mul"ti*ple) n. (Math.) A number or quality which is contained in another an exact
number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight
times.
Submultiple
(Sub*mul"ti*ple), a. (Math.) Of or pertaining to a submultiple; being a submultiple; as, a
submultiple number; submultiple ratio.
Submuscular
(Sub*mus"cu*lar) a. Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.
Subnarcotic
(Sub`nar*cot"ic) a. (Med.) Moderately narcotic.
Subnasal
(Sub*na"sal) a. (Anat.) Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point
of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.
Subnascent
(Sub*nas"cent) a. [L. subnascens, p. pr. of subnasci to grow under; sub under + nasci
to be born.] Growing underneath. [R.] Evelyn.
Subnect
(Sub*nect") v. t. [L. subnectere, subnextum; sub under + nectere to tie.] To tie or fasten
beneath; to join beneath. [R.] Pope.
Subnex
(Sub*nex") v. t. [See Subnect.] To subjoin; to subnect. [Obs.] Holland.
Subnormal
(Sub*nor"mal) n. (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between
the ordinate and the normal.
