Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SUB-MISS-IVE-NESS – SUB-OR'DIN-ATE
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- A submissive temper or disposition.
- Humbleness; acknowledgment of inferiority.
- Confession of fault. Frailty gets pardon by submissiveness. – Herbert.
SUB-MISS'LY, adv.
Humbly; with submission. [Little used.] – Taylor.
SUB-MISS'NESS, n.
Humbleness; obedience. [Little used.] – Burton.
SUB-MIT', v.i.
- To surrender; to yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance. The enemy submitted. The revolted provinces presently submitted. – Middleton.
- To yield one's opinion to the opinion or authority of another. On hearing the opinion of the court, the counsel submitted without further argument.
- To be subject; to acquiesce in the authority of another. To thy husband's will / Thine shall submit. – Milton.
- To be submissive; to yield without murmuring. Our religion requires us … to submit to pain, disgrace and even death. – Rogers.
SUB-MIT', v.t. [L. submitto; sub, under, and mitto, to send; Fr. soumettre; It. sommettere; Sp. someter.]
- To let down; to cause to sink or lower. Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. – Dryden. [This use of the word is nearly or wholly obsolete.]
- To yield, resign or surrender to the power, will or authority of another; with the reciprocal pronoun. Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hand. – Gen. xvi. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands. – Eph. v. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man. – 1 Pet. ii.
- To refer; to leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court.
SUB-MIT'TED, pp.
Surrendered; resigned; yielded; referred.
SUB-MIT'TER, n.
One who submits.
SUB-MIT'TING, ppr.
Surrendering; resigning; yielding; referring to another for decision.
SUB-MON'ISH, v.t. [L. submoneo.]
To suggest; to prompt.
SUB-MON-I'TION, n.
Suggestion. – Granger.
SUB-MUL'TI-PLE, n. [See Multiply.]
A number or quantity which is contained in another a certain number of times, or is an aliquot part of it. Thus 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times. The word is used as an adjective also; as, a submultiple number; submultiple ratio. – Cyc.
SUB-NAR-COT'IC, a.
Moderately narcotic. – Barton.
SUB-NAS'CENT, a. [L. sub and nascor.]
Growing underneath.
SUB-NECT', v.t. [L. subnecto.]
To tie, buckle or fasten beneath. [Not in use.] – Pope.
SUB-NOR'MAL, n. [L. sub and norma, a rule.]
A subperpendicular, or a line under the perpendicular to a curve.
SUB-NUDE, a. [L. sub and nudus, naked.]
In botany, almost naked or bare of leaves. – Lee.
SUB-OB-SCURE-LY, adv.
Somewhat obscurely or darkly. – Donne.
SUB-OC-CIP'IT-AL, a.
Being under the occiput; as, the suboccipital nerves. – Parr.
SUB-OC'TAVE, or SUB-OC'TU-PLE, a. [L. sub and octavus, or octuple.]
Containing one part of eight. – Wilkins. Arbuthnot.
SUB-OC'U-LAR, a. [L. sub and oculus.]
Being under the eye. – Barrow.
SUB-OR-BIC'U-LAR, or SUB-OR-BIC'U-LATE, a. [L. sub and orbiculatus.]
Almost orbiculate or orbicular; nearly circular. – Martyn. Say.
SUB-OR'DIN-A-CY, n. [See Subordinate.]
- The state of being subordinate or subject to control; as, to bring to imagination to act in subordinacy to reason. – Spectator.
- Series of subordination. [Little used.] – Temple.
SUB-OR'DI-NAN-CY, n. [Not in use. See Subordinocy.]
SUB-OR'DIN-ATE, a. [L. sub and ordinatus, from ordo, order.]
- Inferior in order, in nature, in dignity, in power, importance, &c.; as, subordinate officers. It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. – South.
- Descending in a regular series. The several kinds and subordinate species of each, are easily distinguished. – Woodward.
SUB-OR'DIN-ATE, v.t.
- To place in an order or rank below something else; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another to subordinate temporal to spiritual things.
- To make subject; as, to subordinate the passions to reason. – Scott.