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Remit
Definitions
- 1 Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope. British
"WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit."
- 2 (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) wordnet
- 3 A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
- 4 the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with wordnet
- 1 To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply. transitive
"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;"
- 2 diminish or abate wordnet
- 3 To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.). transitive
"Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits."
- 4 make slack as by lessening tension or firmness wordnet
- 5 To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel. transitive
"to remit the performance of an obligation"
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- 6 forgive wordnet
- 7 To give up; omit; cease doing. obsolete, transitive
"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."
- 8 refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision wordnet
- 9 To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.). transitive
"Our Supream Foe in time may much remit His anger,"
- 10 release from (claims, debts, or taxes) wordnet
- 11 To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality). intransitive, obsolete
"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."
- 12 send (money) in payment wordnet
- 13 To diminish, abate. intransitive, obsolete
"[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;"
- 14 hold back to a later time wordnet
- 15 To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person). transitive
"[...] 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."
- 16 To send back. obsolete, transitive
- 17 To give or deliver up; surrender; resign. archaic, transitive
"Princess of France. What, will you have me, or your pearl again? Biron. Neither of either; I remit both twain."
- 18 To restore or replace. transitive
"[…] he bad the Lyon be remitted Into his seate, and those same treachours vile Be punished for their presumptuous guile."
- 19 To postpone. transitive
- 20 To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something. obsolete, transitive
"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 …"
Etymology
From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.
From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.
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