bring to submission

  • 1bring someone (or something) to their (or its) knees — reduce someone or something to a state of weakness or submission. → knee …

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  • 2bring someone to their knees — ► bring someone to their knees reduce someone to a state of weakness or submission. Main Entry: ↑knee …

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  • 3bring someone to his — idi or her knees, to force someone into submission or compliance …

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  • 4bring someone/something to their/its knees — reduce someone or something to a state of weakness or submission …

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  • 5Fergus of Galloway — was King, or Lord, of Galloway from an unknown date (probably in the 1110s), until his death in 1161. He was the founder of that sub kingdom, the resurrector of the Bishopric of Whithorn, the patron of new abbeys (e.g. Dundrennan Abbey), and much …

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  • 6term — termly, adv. /terrm/, n. 1. a word or group of words designating something, esp. in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics. 2. any word or group of words considered as a… …

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  • 7Macarius of Antioch — Infobox Patriarch name=Macarius of Antioch patriarch of= church=Eastern Orthodox Church see=Antioch birth name= enthroned=656 ended=681 predecessor=George I of Antioch successor=Theophanes of Antioch birth date= birth place= death date= death… …

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  • 8Macarius of Antioch — • A Patriarch, deposed in 681 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Macarius of Antioch     Macarius of Antioch     † …

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  • 9subdue — sub·due || sÉ™b duː / djuː v. conquer, overcome, defeat; gain control over, bring into submission, master; reduce the intensity of; cultivate land …

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  • 10subdued — sub dued || sÉ™b duːd / djuːd adj. conquered, overcome, defeated; submissive; reduced in intensity sub·due || sÉ™b duː / djuː v. conquer, overcome, defeat; gain control over, bring into submission, master; reduce the intensity of; cultivate… …

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