Submission Sub·mis"sion noun [ Latin
submissio a letting down, lowering: confer French
soumission .]
1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance. Submission , dauphin! 't is a mere French word;
We English warrious wot not what it means.
Shak. 2. The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation. In all submission and humility
York doth present himself unto your highness.
Shak. No duty in religion is more justly required by God . . . than a perfect submission to his will in all things.
Sir W. Temple. 3. Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error. Be not as extreme in submission
As in offense.
Shak. 4. (Law) An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier.
Submissive Sub·mis"sive adjective 1. Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress,
Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.
Milton. 2. Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down.
Prior. Syn. -- Obedient; compliant; yielding; obsequious; subservient; humble; modest; passive. --
Sub*mis"sive*ly ,
adverb --
Sub*mis"sive*ness ,
noun
Submissly Sub·miss"ly adverb In a submissive manner; with a submission. [ Archaic]
Jer. Taylor.
Submissness Sub·miss"ness noun Submissiveness. [ Obsolete]
Submit Sub·mit" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Submitted ;
present participle & verbal noun Submitting .] [ Latin
submittere ;
sub under +
mittere to send: confer French
soumettre . See
Missile .]
1. To let down; to lower. [ Obsolete]
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.
Submit Sub·mit" intransitive verb 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 noun One who submits. Whitlock.
Submonish Sub·mon"ish transitive verb [ Latin
submonere . See
Summon , and
-ish .]
To suggest; to prompt. [ R.] "The
submonishing inclinations of my senses."
T. Granger.
Submonition Sub`mo·ni"tion noun [ Late Latin
submonitio .]
Suggestion; prompting. [ R.]
T. Granger.
Submucous Sub·mu"cous adjective (Anat.) Situated under a mucous membrane.
Submultiple Sub·mul"ti·ple noun (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 adjective (Math.) Of or pertaining to a submultiple; being a submultiple; as, a submultiple number; submultiple ratio.
Submuscular Sub·mus"cu·lar adjective Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.
Subnarcotic Sub`nar·cot"ic adjective (Medicine) Moderately narcotic.
Subnasal Sub·na"sal adjective (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 adjective [ Latin
subnascens , present participle of
subnasci to grow under;
sub under +
nasci to be born.]
Growing underneath. [ R.]
Evelyn.
Subnect Sub·nect" transitive verb [ Latin
subnectere ,
subnextum ;
sub under +
nectere to tie.]
To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath. [ R.]
Pope.
Subnex Sub·nex" transitive verb [ See
Subnect .]
To subjoin; to subnect. [ Obsolete]
Holland.
Subnormal Sub·nor"mal noun (Geom.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
Subnotation Sub`no·ta"tion noun [ Latin
subnotatio a signing underneath, from
subnotare to subscribe;
sub under +
notare to note or mark.]
A rescript. Bouvier.
Subnotochordal Sub·no`to·chor"dal adjective (Anat.) Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.
Subnuvolar Sub·nu"vo·lar adjective [ Prefix
sub + Italian
nuvola cloud: confer Latin
subnubilus somewhat cloudy.]
Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy. [ R. & Poetic]
Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant.
Milnes.
Subobscurely Sub`ob·scure"ly adverb Somewhat obscurely or darkly. [ R.]
Donne.
Subobtuse Sub`ob·tuse" adjective Partially obtuse.
Suboccipital Sub`oc·cip"i·tal adjective (Anat.) Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput; as, the suboccipital , or first cervical, nerve.
Suboctave, Suboctuple Sub·oc"tave, Sub·oc"tu·ple adjective Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight. Bp. Wilkins.
Subocular Sub·oc"u·lar adjective [ Prefix
sub + ocular : confer Latin
subocularis .]
(Anat.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.
Subofficer Sub·of"fi·cer noun [ Prefix
sub + officer : confer French
sous-officer .]
An under or subordinate officer.
Subopercular Sub`o·per"cu·lar adjective (Anat.) Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum. --
noun The suboperculum.
Suboperculum Sub`o·per"cu·lum noun [ New Latin See
Sub- ,
Operculum .]
(Anat.) The lower opercular bone in fishes.
Suborbicular, Suborbiculate Sub`or·bic"u·lar, Sub`or·bic"u·late adjective Almost orbiculate or orbicular.
Suborbital, Suborbitar Sub·or"bit·al, Sub·or"bit·ar adjective (Anat.) Situated under or below the orbit.
Suborder Sub·or"der noun (Nat. Hist.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.
Subordinacy Sub·or"di·na·cy noun [ See
Subordinate .]
The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in subordinacy to reason. Spectator.
Subordinance, Subordinancy Sub·or"di·nance, Sub·or"di·nan·cy noun [ Prefix
sub + Latin
ordinans , present participle of
ordinare . See
Subordinate ,
adjective ]
Subordinacy; subordination. [ Obsolete]
Dr. H. More. Sir W. Temple.
Subordinary Sub·or"di·na·ry noun (Her.) One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary . » Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the
bar ,
bend ,
sinister ,
pile ,
inescutcheon bordure ,
gyron , and
quarter , are always considered subordinaries by those who do not class them as ordinaries.
Subordinate Sub·or"di·nate adjective [ Prefix
sub + Latin
ordinatus , past participle of
ordinare to set in order, to arrange. See
Ordain .]
1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was subordinate , not enslaved, to the understanding.
South.
Subordinate Sub·or"di·nate noun One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal . Milton.
Subordinate Sub·or"di·nate transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Subordinated ;
present participle & verbal noun Subordinating .]
1. To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another. 2. To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason. --
Sub*or"di*nate*ly ,
adverb --
Sub*or"di*nate*ness ,
noun
Subordination Sub·or`di·na"tion noun [ Confer French
subordination .]
1. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting. 2. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection. Natural creature having a local subordination .
Holyday. 3. Place of inferior rank. Persons who in their several subordinations would be obliged to follow the example of their superiors.
Swift.
Subordinative Sub·or"di·na·tive adjective Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction.
Suborn Sub·orn" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Suborned ;
present participle & verbal noun Suborning .] [ French
suborner , Latin
subornare ;
sub under, secretly +
ornare to furnish, provide, equip, adorn. See
Ornament .]
1. (Law) To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken. Sir W. O. Russell. 2. To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate. Thou art suborned against his honor.
Shak. Those who by despair suborn their death.
Dryden.
Subornation Sub`or·na"tion noun [ French
subornation .]
1. (Law) The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone. 2. The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion. Foul subornation is predominant.
Shak. The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy.
De Quinsey.
Suborner Sub·orn"er noun One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
Suboval Sub·o"val adjective Somewhat oval; nearly oval.
Subovate Sub·o"vate adjective Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.
Subovated Sub·o"va·ted adjective Subovate. [ R.]
Suboxide Sub·ox"ide noun (Chemistry) An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen, and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide , K 4 O.
Subpœna Sub·pœ"na noun [ New Latin , from Latin
sub under +
poena punishment. See
Pain .]
(Law) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill. [ Written also
subpena .]
Subpœna Sub·pœ"na transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Subpœnaed ;
present participle & verbal noun Subpœnaing .]
(Law) To serve with a writ of subpœna; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.
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