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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.