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An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.

Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down. Prior.

In a submissive manner; with a submission. [Archaic] Jer. Taylor.

Submission; obedience. [Obs.] You owe me no subscription. Shak.

Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation. Chaucer. But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise. Spenser.

To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore. A man can not brook to supplicate or beg. Bacon.

Omission; as, the suppression of a word.

Admission. [R.]

ised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.…

time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration. Synodals are due, of common right, to the bishop only. Gibson.

fic, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics.…

ar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. Macaulay.

l departments; --called also, by foreigners, intendant of circuit. Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.

Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity.

Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

A system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.

mittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

nd like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Fairholt.

Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion. Our test excludes your tribe from benefit. Dryden.

rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.