Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUB-MISS-IVE-NESS, n.

1. A submissive temper or disposition.
2. Humbleness; acknowledgment of inferiority.
3. 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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To be subject; to acquiesce in the authority of another. To thy husband's will / Thine shall submit. – Milton.
4. 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.]

1. 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.]
2. 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.
3. 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.]

1. The state of being subordinate or subject to control; as, to bring to imagination to act in subordinacy to reason. – Spectator.
2. 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.]

1. Inferior in order, in nature, in dignity, in power, importance, &c.; as, subordinate officers. It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding. – South.
2. Descending in a regular series. The several kinds and subordinate species of each, are easily distinguished. – Woodward.

SUB-OR'DIN-ATE, v.t.

1. 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.
2. To make subject; as, to subordinate the passions to reason. – Scott.