remit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.
Inflected forms:
form: remits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: remitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: remitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: remitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: remytte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: remits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: remytte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of English Seamen;
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.
The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.
gloss: To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits.
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Mrs. Western was a very good-natured Woman, and ordinarily of a forgiving Temper. She had lately remitted the Trespass of a Stage-coach Man, who had overturned her Post-chaise into a Ditch;
So he said that there was no sin to remit in baptism: ‘sin is not born with a man, it is subsequently committed by the man; for it is shown to be a fault, not of nature, but of the human will’.
gloss: To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to remit the performance of an obligation
1798, Hannah Brand, Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade, Act V, Scene 8, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, p. 131,
I knelt for pardon, for this breach of Oath,
Which, thou forgiving, I then shall hope
Heaven will remit hereafter punishment;
The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit.
He also took that old lawyer out of prison and remitted his fine.
gloss: To give up; omit; cease doing.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 12, 19 November, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 124,
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.
He who connected himself with a woman whose brother, sister, or other relations, were fugitives, would probably be tempted to remit his pursuit of them, and even to favour their concealment.
I was obliged at last almost entirely to remit my visits to the Grove, at the expense of deeply offending Mrs. Hargrave and seriously afflicting poor Esther, who really values my society for want of better [...]
gloss: To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Our Supream Foe in time may much remit
His anger,
The wind at sea generally blows with an even steady gale; the wind at land puffs by intervals, encreasing its strength, and remitting it, without any apparent cause.
Their confidence revived, they might in a short time remit in some degree their watchfulness over my movements, and I should then be the better enabled to avail myself of any opportunity which presented itself for escape.
gloss: To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: 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.
1775, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The Legend of Benignus, Chapter 5, in Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, Volume 1, p. 97,
At the end of about two months, the severity of my fate began to remit of its rigour.
gloss: To diminish, abate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: [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;
1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 6, “Observations on the Twenty-Second Book,” no. 25, p. 52,
… this is very agreeable to the Nature of Achilles; his Anger abates very slowly; it is stubborn, yet still it remits:
1783, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell dated 30 September, 1783, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume 2, p. 467,
… I have been for these ten days much harrassed with the gout, but that has now remitted.
gloss: To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] in grieuous and inhumane crimes, in such as ouerthrow the foundation of state, in such as shake the surety of humane society, I conceiue it more fit that offenders should be remitted to their Prince to be punished in the place where they haue offended.
The Pris’ner was remitted to the Guard.
In this case, the law remits him to his antient and more certain right [...]
gloss: To send back.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Princess of France. What, will you have me, or your pearl again?
Biron. Neither of either; I remit both twain.
gloss: To restore or replace.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] he bad the Lyon be remitted
Into his seate, and those same treachours vile
Be punished for their presumptuous guile.
[...] the Archbishop was retained prisoner, but after a short time remitted to his liberty.
gloss: To postpone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 1668, Joseph Glanvill, Plus Ultra, or, The Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle, London: James Collins, Preface,
These are the things I thought fit to premise to my Discourse, to which now I remit your Eyes, without adding more …
You wonder how it comes to paſs that a King of Great Britain muſt now-adays be looked upon as one of the Magiſtrates of the Kingdom only; whereas in all other Kingly Governments in Chriſtendom, Kings are inveſted with a Free and Absolute Authority. For the Scots, I remit you to [George] Buchanan: For France, your own Native Countrey, to which you ſeem to be a ſtranger, to Hottoman's Franco Gallia, and Girardus a French Hiſtorian; [...]
For the definitions of regularity, uniformity, proportion, and order, if thought necessary, I remit my reader to the appendix at the end of the book.
gloss: Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit.
However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.
Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.
2012, The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Chile's economic statistics: For richer—or poorer
Chile needs to gather together its statisticians into a single agency, such as a new and improved INE, and give it more autonomy and a broader remit.
As an adjunct to the new corporate plan, the sector produced a 20-page prospectus explaining how it would fulfil its remit, which was approved by the Minister.
gloss: A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
pos: noun
Synonyms: responsibility
purview
jurisdiction
brief
Related words: remission
remittent
mission
mandate
Derived words: nonremitted
remitment
remittable
remittal
remittance
remittee
remitter
unremitted
unremitting
remitless
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