/ɹɪˈmɪt/, /ɹiˈmɪt/, /ɹɪˈmɪt/
OriginFrom Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.
- transitiveTo transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
“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 Engl”
“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.”
- transitiveTo forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
“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;”
- transitiveTo refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
“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
Heav”
“The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit.”
- obsolete, transitiveTo give up; omit; cease doing.
“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 ac”
“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 b”
- transitiveTo allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
“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 present”
- intransitive, obsoleteTo 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.”
“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, ”
- intransitive, obsoleteTo 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;”
“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 abat”
“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 mu”
- transitiveTo refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
“[...] 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 Pr”
“The Pris’ner was remitted to the Guard.”
“In this case, the law remits him to his antient and more certain right [...]”
- obsolete, transitiveTo send back.
- archaic, transitiveTo 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.”
- transitiveTo restore or replace.
“[…] 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.”
- transitiveTo postpone.
- obsolete, transitiveTo refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.
“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 Discou”
“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 ”
“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.”
- BritishTerms 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.”
“However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.”
“Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.”
- A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
Formsremits(present, singular, third-person) · remitting(participle, present) · remitted(participle, past) · remitted(past) · remytte(alternative) · remits(plural)