remit

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment)

   To 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 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.
2. 2

   To 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;
3. 3

   To refrain from exacting or enforcing

   To 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 Heaven will remit hereafter punishment;
   • The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit.
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   1. 4

      To give up

      To give up; omit; cease doing.

      • 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 [...]
   2. 5

      To 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 presented itself for escape.
   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      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;
   5. 8

      To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or…

      To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

      • The Pris’ner was remitted to the Guard.
      • In this case, the law remits him to his antient and more certain right [...]
   6. 9

      To send back.

   7. 10

      To give or deliver up

      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.
   8. 11

      To 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.
   9. 12

      To postpone.

   10. 13

       To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.

       • 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.
   11. 14

       Terms of reference

       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.
       • However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.
       • Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.
   12. 15

       A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.

The neighborhood

• synonymresponsibility
• synonympurview
• synonymjurisdiction
• synonymbrief
• neighborremission
• neighborremittent
• neighbormission
• neighbormandate