[f. SUBMIT + -ER1.] One who submits.
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 384. Dorcas … a submitter of her selfe to the ordinance of God.
1635. D. Dickson, Pract. Wks. (1845), I. 25. Submitters turn in to Him acknowledging that they are dust and ashes.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 118. The sick (but confident) submitters of themselves to this Empyricks cast of the Dye.
1782. J. Brown, 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 Mag., VII. 68. The … trimmers, and submitters to expediency.
b. Sc. Law. One who makes a ‘submission.’
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.
1765–8. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., IV. iii. § 32. If the submitters limit the power of the arbiters to any fixed day, decree cannot be pronounced after that day.
1804. W. M. Morison’s Decis. Crt. Session, XVII. 6900. According to the universal order taken by the submitters concerning kirklands.
