Sekirov Dictionary

remit

UK /ɹɪˈmɪt/US /ɹiˈmɪt/

verb 13
noun 2
forms 5

verb13

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To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post. — 1849
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To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- The Pris’ner was remitted to the Guard. — 1700
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To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offense, etc.).
- Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits. — 1603
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To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
- I knelt for pardon, for this breach of Oath, Which, thou forgiving, I then shall hope Heaven will remit hereafter punishment — 1798
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To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- Our Supream Foe in time may much remit His anger, — 1667
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To diminish, abate.
- [The water] sustains these Particles, and carries them on together with it ’till such time as its Motion begins to remit and be less rapid than it was at, and near its Source — 1695
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To restore or replace.
- […] he bad the Lyon be remitted Into his seate, and those same treachours vile Be punished for their presumptuous guile. — 1591
To postpone.
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(no longer used) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
- Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride. — 2001
(no longer used) To send back.
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(no longer used) To give up; omit; cease doing.
- Among our own sex, there is no race of men more apt to indulge a spirit of acrimony, and to remit their natural Good Humour, than authors. — 1761
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(no longer used) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
- Princess of France. What, will you have me, or your pearl again? Biron. Neither of either; I remit both twain. — 1595
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(no longer used) To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.
- These are the things I thought fit to premise to my Discourse, to which now I remit your Eyes, without adding more … — 1668

noun2

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(UK) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
- WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit. — 2000
A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.

forms

remitted · remitting · remits · remitteth · remittest

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