SUBMIT Copy link • SUBMITIntransitively, se submittere alicui: se dedere alicui: se subjicere alicujus imperio: in alicujus potestatem se permittere: in alicujus ditionem venire: sub alicujus imperium ditionemque cadere: sub nutum ditionemque alicujus pervenire. To submit to the laws, se subjicere legibus (Plin., Pan., 65); legibus parere (Cic.). To submit to an indignity, or = to condescend to anything, descendere, or sua voluntate descendere; to anything, ad aliquid (the proper word): se demittere; to anything, ad or in aliquid: se submittere; to anything, ad or in aliquid: dignari aliquid facere (not Cic.; but Catullus, Lucr., Verg., Col., Suet., both positively and negatively). To submit to use all manner of entreaties, descendere in preces omnes: to submit to use flattery, se demittere in adulationem (Tac.): to submit to the disgrace of pleading one’s cause as a criminal, submittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium (Liv.). Transitively, To refer, referre (ad). Vid: REFER.