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submiss, a.|səbˈmɪs|
Also 6–7 -is, -isse.
[ad. L. submissus, pa. pple. of submittĕre to submit. Cf. summiss.]
1. = submissive. (Const. to.) Obs. exc. arch.
a. Of persons.
1570Foxe A. & M. I. 311/2 Neither was the kyng now and Archb. so submisse: but [etc.]. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 475 Be not too imperious ouer hir..nor too submisse. 1600Heywood 2nd Pt. Edw. IV, ii. ii. (1613) P 4 b, Was neuer Doue, or Turtle more submisse, Then I will be vnto your chastisement. 1612Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. iii. iii. 207 To execute rigour vpon a submisse offender is more mercilesse then iust. 1625Mountagu App. Cæsar 110 It were to be wished, that such transported spirits were taught to be more submisse and sparing in their talk. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 316 With aw In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 12 To foreign yoke submiss. 1735Somerville Chace ii. 112 Huntsman, lead on! behind the clust'ring Pack Submiss attend. 1813Scott Rokeby iii. xxi, Submiss he answer'd. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xii. iv. III. 213 To such of the Canons as he came upon, his Majesty was most polite; they most submiss. 1875A. de Vere Mary Tudor iii. iii, Sir, you presume. Your station Is our confessional. There, as a daughter, I stand submiss.
absol.1742Shenstone Schoolmistr. xvii, To thwart the proud, and the submiss to raise.
b. Of actions, feelings, demeanour, etc.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 337 They would not equall them with those who were alreadie humbled, till they submitted in a more submisse manner. 1588Greene Pandosto (1607) A 3 b, Pandosto..entertained the Kings..& Noblemen with such submisse curtesie. 1622Bacon Hen. VII, 190 King Iames mollified by the Bishops submisse and eloquent Letters. 1659Hammond On Ps. xcv. 6 Even the submissest and lowlyest gestures. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. Introd. C 3/2 A Simple, Submiss, Humble Style. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. i. (1882) 5 The great works of past ages..in respect to which his faculties must remain passive and submiss. 1848Lytton Harold iii. ii, Godwin prays with all submiss and earnest prayer. 1904M. Hewlett Queen's Quair I. xi, Every testimony of the submiss heart given him by my lady.
c. fig. Of material things.
1637Marmion Cupid & Psyche i. i. 113 With her rosie feet insulting ore The submisse waves, a Dolphin she bestrides. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy ii. 206 The loadstone draws, Acts like a will to make the iron submiss.
†d. Of buildings: ? Unpretentious. Obs.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 88 The buildings are generally submisse and low. 1664J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 40 Pylasters..ought not..to be of such stately Height as Pillars, but far more humble and submiss.
†e. With prefixed too forming subst. phr. Obs.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. ci. 399 And rather than in haughtiness did fault in too-submis.
†2. Of the voice, speech: Low, uttered in an undertone, subdued. Obs.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies v. xxx. 425 They said with a low and submisse voyce, Sir [etc.]. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 844 That submiss reading in Churches sine cantu, which we use now. 1666J. Smith Old Age 118 As Age enfeebleth a man the grindings are weaker, and the several voices of them more submiss. 1787tr. Klopstock's Messiah iv. 182 Judas, then with submiss Voice said, Is it I? |