submittern.

1557 Petition in H. Swinden Hist. Great Yarmouth (1772) 428 Not as prescribers, but humbell submitters.

1607 S. Hieron Life & Death Dorcas in Wks. (1620) I. 384 Dorcas..a submitter of her selfe to the ordinance of God.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 118 The sick (but confident) submitters of themselves to this Empyricks cast of the Dye.

a1720 L. Milbourne Legacy Church of Eng. (1722) xiii. 258 Those who act contrary to Divine Rules..can never pretend to be Hearers of, or Submitters to the Apostles.

1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. i. i. 25 The submitters, no doubt, insisted on the best terms, for their obedience, which they could obtain.

1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 7 68 What the sneezers, and trimmers, and submitters to expediency..must have considered very trifling matters.

1842 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. X. lxxiii. 57 The Swiss as a whole were rather passive submitters to, than active auxiliaries of, their [sc. the allied powers'] arms.

1921 S. Kaye-Smith Joanna Godden iv. 151 Ellen submitted—she was a born submitter, whose resentful and watchful submission had come almost to the pitch of art.

2003 F. E. Peters Monotheists I. iii. 102 Abraham was, in fact, the first muslim, the first submitter to God in absolute monotheism.

1622 in A. Gibson Decisions Lords of Council (1690) 25 She not being a submitter nor consenter to the decreet, the donator nor the rebels self could have no duty out of the foresaids lands during her lifetime.

1628 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 191/2 This present Submission shall be no wayes prejudicial to whatsoever action of Warrandice competent to the saids Persones Submitters or any of them against their Authors.

1690 A. Gibson Decisions Court of Sessions 1621–42 549 According to the universal Order taken by the Submitters, concerning Kirklands.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iv. iii. §32. 698 If the submitters limit the power of the arbiters to any fixed day.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 560/1 Oversman, in Scots law, a person appointed by arbiters, or by the parties submitters, to determine the matter submitted, in case the parties disagree in their opinion.

1820 Select Comm. Royal Burghs Scotl. 84 in Parl. Papers III. 95 The forenamed persons submitters for themselves, and in name and behalf foresaid, bind and oblige them and their successors in their respective incorporations above written, to stand to and abyde thereat.

1888 J. Craigie Digest Sc. Law Conveyancing: Moveable Rights iv. iii. 248 A statutory submission does not fall by the death of a party-submitter.

1939 Scots Law Times Rep. 270/1 There has grown up a practice which is now firmly established in arbitrations, whereby parties submitters have a right to make representations upon the findings or awards of the arbiter.

1776 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 III. 276 Determine on your measure,..propose it or submit it to Parliament; and if any one offers to reason, enquire, or ask questions concerning its propriety, let the adviser, or proposer, or submitter, rise, and very gravely assure his auditors, that all such enquiries..are totally nugatory and absurd.

1830 Mechanics' Mag. 14 Aug. 416/1 The submitter of the following proposals having, for some years, been prepossessed with an idea of being able to invent a self-moving machine.

1887 Wade's Fibre & Fabric 19 Nov. 94/1 The submitter of the plans.

1895 Electr. Engineer 9 Aug. 144/1 Prof. Forbes the submitter of a project, to the International Niagara Commission.

1976 Amer. Sociologist 11 152/1 As a submitter of manuscripts, I have had mixed results with respect to the assistance provided by referees' comments.

1987 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 June 31/3 College academic performance of submitters and withholders [of test results] has been comparable since the policy was begun.

2010 J. L. Hall Grant Managem. vii. 251 Electronic submission is costless to the submitter, whereas paper submissions required postage or courier fees.