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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. t. [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.]
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              Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. --Dryden.
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     2. To put or place under.
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              The bristled throat
              Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he
              cut.                                  --Chapman.
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     3. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or
        authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
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              Ye ben submitted through your free assent.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy
              mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. --Gen.
                                                    xvi. 9.
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              Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.
                                                    --Eph. v. 22.
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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.
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              Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear
              a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. --Swift.
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              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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  submit
       v 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]:

  submitting
       See {submit}

















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