α. late Middle English submise, late Middle English–1500s submyse.
β. 1600s submiss (Scottish).
† submisev.
Obsolete.
transitive. = submit v. II.
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)]
wieldOE
i-weldeOE
onwaldOE
overwieldlOE
amaistera1250
underlaya1300
daunt1303
underbringc1320
yoke?c1335
undercasta1340
afaitec1350
faite1362
subjecta1382
to make subjectc1384
distraina1400
underlouta1400
underthewa1400
underset1422
subjectc1460
subjuge?1473
submise?1473
dompt1480
suppedit?1483
to keep under1486
abandon1487
bandon?a1500
suppeditatec1545
to bring under1563
reduce1569
assubject1579
overpower1597
envassal1606
assubjugate1609
vassal1612
subact1619
vassalize1647
vassalate1659
to school down1818
to ride herd on (also over)1895
the world > action or operation > operation upon something > have effect on [verb (transitive)] > subject to action or operation > subject to a condition or treatment
submitc1425
submise?1473
expose1474
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 127 Loue in this nyght submysid and constrayned them [Fr. les submist] to loue eche other with oute spekyng.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccxvjv/1 She submysed [L. substravit; Fr. soubzmettoit] her body to delyte.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cclxxxx/2 They haue submysed alle theyr wyll to the wyll of theyr soueraynes.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. z.i The doubte, vnto the whiche the lender is submysed.
?1600 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1942) I. 92 Submissing this forms sequisatioune and present posibilite to ȝour..indeferent iudgmentis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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