remitverb/ɹɪˈmɪt/

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  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.
• 2

  To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offense, 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.
• 3

  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;
• 4

  obsoleteTo 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 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.
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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,
  • 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.
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  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, the severity of my fate began to remit of its rigour.
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  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 abates very slowly; it is stubborn, yet still it remits:
• 8

  To 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 Prince to be punished in the place where they haue offended.
  • The Pris’ner was remitted to the Guard.

remitnoun/ɹɪˈmɪt/

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  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.
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  lawA communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.