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`remissibility
`is-si-bil'i:t)'., n. the condition or quality
`. g rernissible.
`b{1fs1-ble, a. capable of being remitted,
`81on (-rnish'un), JI· [L. remissio (-onis),
`/ ,
`,::;remillere, pp. rem,ssus, to send back, re-
`
`it,]the act of ~e~itting (in V!'ri?us senses);
`.,,t~Jeasing, resigning, rehnqu1shmg, surren-
`a. ·
`etc
`-,;csde2mf~rgiv~ne_ss; pardon, as of sins or crimes.
`";cf,:;,. 3: cancellation of or release from a debt,
`,'cc ·t· ~x penaJty,_etc.
`.
`',,'.s:_, p 4,' a Jessenmg; abatmg; diminution, as of
`. -h at or cold,
`.
`.
`- ~. a temporary lessening of a disease or
`
`p~n~ lessening of tension; relaxation. [Obs.]
`7' the act of sending back. [Rare.]
`8• the act of remitting clr sending, as
`0 ;,,ey in payment; remittance.
`rnremis'sion of sins; forgiveness of or deliver(cid:173)
`nee from the guilt and penalty of sin.
`a Remission Thursday; same as Maundy
`Thursday. .
`.
`.
`syn.-reh~quishment, release, forgiv_eness,
`pardon: remittance, ':'b':'tement,. c_essation.
`re,mis1s1ve, a. 1. remitting; forgivmg. [Rare.]
`2. tending to abate; relaxing.
`re-miss1ly, adv._in a remiss manner; slackly;
`carelessly; negligently.
`re-miss'ness, n. the state or quality of being
`remiss._
`. .
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`.
`.
`re,mis1so·rY, a. tendmg to remission; pertam-
`ing to remission_. [Rare.]
`.
`.
`re-mit1, v.t,; remitted, pt., pp.; rem,ttmg, ppr.
`[L. remittere, to send back; re- and mittere, to
`send.]
`.
`.
`.
`.
`1. to resign; to give up; to relmqu1sh; to
`surrender. [Obs.)
`2. to pardon or forgive (sins, etc.).
`Whose soever sins ye remit, they· are re-
`- John xx. 23.
`mitted unto them.
`3. to restore; to replace; to put back, as
`into a state or position.
`4. to relax or diminish in intensity; to make
`Jess violent; to abate; to decrease; to let
`slacken.
`5. (a) to refrain from exacting (a payment,
`tax, etc,); (b) to refrain from inflicting (a
`punishment) or enforcing (a sentence); to
`cancel.
`6. to submit or refer (a matter) for con(cid:173)
`sideration, judgment, or action, especially to
`someone whose business it is to look after
`such things.
`7. to refer (one) for guidance, assistance,
`etc.
`8. to put off; to postpone,
`9. to send or pay (money),
`10. to send back to jail; to recommit.
`[Rare.]
`11. in law, to send back (a case) to a lower
`court for further action.
`Syn.-absolve, release, relax, pardon, ac(cid:173)
`. _quit, relinquish, fonvard, forgive, exonerate.
`re-mit1, v.i. 1. to diminish; to become less in(cid:173)
`tense or rigorous; to moderate in force or in(cid:173)
`tensity; to abate by growing Jess earnest,
`eager, or active; specifically, in medicine, to
`abate in violence, as a fever,
`2. to send or transmit money, as in pay(cid:173)
`_ment; to pay.
`re-mit'ment, n. the act of remitting; the state
`of being remitted; pardon. [Obs.]
`r~·mit1ta-ble, a. that can be remitted.
`re-mit1tlH, n. remission; a remitting.
`re-mit'tance, n. 1. in commerce, the act of
`transmitting money, bills, or tbe like, as by
`mail, to a distant place, as in paym'2nt for
`goods.
`·
`2. the sum or thing remitted.
`remittance man; a man who lives abroad
`supported principally by remittances re(cid:173)
`ceived from home.
`re:mit-tee1, n. a person to whom a remittance
`Is forwarded.
`re·mit1tent, a. [L. remiltens (-entis), ppr. of
`remiltere, to remit.] remitting; having periods
`of abatement and of exacerbation, but never
`entire cessation; as, a remitlent fever,
`re·mit1tent, n. a remittent fever,
`re·mit'ter, ti.· 1. one who remits, or makes re(cid:173)
`mittance; one who pardons or forgives.
`2. restoration, as to a previous state or
`right.
`3. in Jaw, (a) the transfer of a case to an(cid:173)
`other court, usually a lower one, for decision;
`(b) the principle or act of adjudging a person
`to hold property by an earlier and more valid
`title to i~ than the later but defective one by
`which he took it over.
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`re·mit'ti·tUr, n. (L.] in law, (a) a voluntary
`relinquishment of part of the damages found
`by a jury, done to avoid taking chances on a
`new trial; (b) the order of a court of review by
`which the record of a case is sent back to a
`lower court, with instructions as to subse(cid:173)
`quent procedure, as for execution or a new
`trial.
`re-mit'tclr, n. in law, a person who makes a
`remittance,
`rem1nant, n. [contr. from ME. remenant, rem(cid:173)
`anent; OFr. remenant, remenaunt, from L.
`remanere, to stay, to remain.)
`1. what is left over; remamder; residue .
`2. a small remaining part, quantity, or
`number; a fragment left over.
`J. a trace; a last remaining indication of
`what has been; as, a remnant of his former
`pride,
`·
`4. a piece of cloth, ribbon, etc. left over or
`unsold, as at the end of a bolt.
`Syn.-residue, remainder, balance, rest,
`leavings.
`rem 1nant, a. remaining; yet left.
`re-mod 1el, v.t.; remodeled or remodelled, pt.,
`pp.; remodeling or remodelling, ppr. 1. to
`model again.
`2. to make over; to rebuild.
`r!l·mo·lade 1, n. remoulade, a French salad
`dressing somewhat resembling mayonnaise.
`re·mol1li·ent, a. [Fr.] emollient. [Obs.]
`re-mon'e·ti,zli.'tion, n. the act or process of
`remonetizing or the state of being remone(cid:173)
`tized.
`re-mon'e·tize, v.t.; remonetized, pt., pp,; re(cid:173)
`monetizing, ppr. to restore to standing as
`legal tender, or lawful money; as, to remone(cid:173)
`tize silver.
`re·mon1strance, n. [OFr. remonstrance; LL.
`remonstrantia; remonstrans (-antis), ppr. of
`remonstrare, to remonstrate:)
`l. the act of demonstrating or manifesting
`demonstration; show; display, [Obs.]
`2. declaration; statement. [Obs.)
`3. act or instance of remonstrating or ex(cid:173)
`postulating; a strong r'epresentation of reas(cid:173)
`ons or facts against something complained of
`or opposed; expostulation; hence, a paper or
`document containing such representation or
`expostulation.
`4. in the Roman Catholic Church, a mon(cid:173)
`strance,
`re-mon1strant, a. [LL. remonstrans (-antis),
`ppr. of remonstrare, to remonstrate.]
`1. remonstrating; expostulatory; urging
`strong reasons against an act.
`2. [R-] of or pertaining to the Remon(cid:173)
`strants.
`re-mon1strant, n. 1. one who remonstrates.
`2. [R-] one of the Dutch Protestants, who,
`after the death of Arminius (A. D. 1609), cons
`tinued to maintain his views, and in 1610 pre(cid:173)
`sented to the States of Holland, at Friesland,
`a remonstrance in five articles formulating
`their points of departure from Calvinism. The
`Remonstrants still form a small sect in Hol(cid:173)
`land.
`re,mon1strant·ly, adv. in a remonstrant man(cid:173)
`ner.
`re·mon1strate, v.i.; remonstrated, pt., pp.; re(cid:173)
`monstrating, pp .. [LL. remonstratus, pp. of
`remonstrare, to demonstrate, from L. re-,
`again, and monstrare, to show.] to exhibit or
`present strong reasons against an act, meas(cid:173)
`ure, or any course of proceedings; to expostu(cid:173)
`late; to protest; to object.
`Syn,-expostulate.-We expostulate when
`we unite argument and entreaty to dissuade
`some one from the course he has chosen;
`when we remonstrate we use argument and
`protest in demonstrating to another that he
`is wrong or blameworthy.
`re·mon 1strate, v.t. 1. to say or plead in pro(cid:173)
`test, objection, complaint, etc.
`2. to point out; to show. [Obs.]
`re-mon,stra 1tion, n. the act of remonstrating.
`re-mon1stra·tive, a. remonstrating.
`re-mon'stra·tclr, n. one who remonstrates.
`re·mo'n1tant, a. [Fr., ppr. of remonter, to re-
`mount.] in horticulture, blooming again in
`the same season: said of roses.
`re·mon1 tant, n. any of the hybrid perpetual
`roses whi_ch bloom more than once in a·
`season.
`rem-on-toir' (-twor1), n. [Fr., from remonter,
`to wind up.] a mechanism, as in a clock, de(cid:173)
`signed to render the force which sustains the
`movement of the escapement perfectly even.
`remonloir escapement; an escapement in
`which the scape wheel is driven by a small
`weight raised by the clock, usually at inter-
`
`Use, b\111, brute, turn, up; cry, myth: gat, ma9hine, ace, church, ghord; gem, anger, (Fr.) bon, a~; this, thin; a~ure
`
`remote
`vals of thirty seconds, or by a spiral spring on
`the scape-wheel arbor, wound up a quarter or
`half turn at the said intervals.
`rem'i'i·ra, n. [L., a delay.)
`1. a delay; a hindrance; an obstacle. [Obs.)
`2. a sucking fish; a;ny species of the genus
`Echeneis, especially Echeneis remora, about
`eight inches long, common in the Mediter(cid:173)
`ranean. By means of the suctorial disk, a
`transformation of the spinous dorsal fin, the
`species can attach themselves to any flat sur(cid:173)
`face. The adhesion is so strong that the fish
`
`R.EMORA CEchtnels remora)
`
`can only be dislodged with difficulty. They
`attach themselves to vessels, or to animals
`having greater power of locomotion than
`themselves, as sharks or turtles, but they can(cid:173)
`not be regarded as parasites, as they do not
`obtain their food at the expense of their host:
`also called shark sucker.
`3. in medicine, (a) a stoppage or stagna(cid:173)
`tion, as of the blood; (b) an instrument to
`retain parts in place, as to maintain a fracture
`in place or a luxation reduced. [Rare.]
`rem'i'i·rlite, v.t. to hinder; to delay. [Obs.)
`re•mord', v.t. to rebuke; to excite to remorse,
`[Obs.]
`re•mord1, v.i. to feel remorse. (Obs.)
`re,mc;,rd 1en,cy, n. compunction;
`remorse,
`[Obs.)
`re,morse1, n. [LL. remorsus, a biting again;
`from L. remorsus, pp. of remordere; re-, again,
`and mordere. to bite, to gnaw.]
`1. a deep, torturing sense of guilt felt for
`one's actions; the keen pain or anguish ex(cid:173)
`cited by a sense of guilt; compunction of con(cid:173)
`science for an evil act committed; self-re(cid:173)
`proach.
`Remorse bears the same relation to repent(cid:173)
`ance, as rage does to anger, or agony to
`pain.
`-C. Darwin.
`2. sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion:
`now only in without remorse, pitilessly.
`Syn.-compunction,
`regret,
`repentance,
`contrition.
`re-mqrsed' (-m9rst'), a. feeling remorse or
`compunction. [Obs.)
`re•morse 1fyl, a.
`1. full of remorse; feeling,
`expressing, or caused by remorse.
`2. compassionate; feeling tenderly. [Obs.)
`3. pitiable. [Obs.)
`re-morse'fyl-ly, adv. with remorse of con(cid:173)
`scierice.
`re·niqrse'fyl-ness, n. the state of being re(cid:173)
`morseful.
`re-morse'less, a. without remorse; unpitying;
`cruel; relentless; merciless; insensible to dis(cid:173)
`tress; implacable.
`re•morse1less-iy, adv. in a remorseless manner.
`re-morse'less-ness, n. the quality or state of
`' being remorseless; insensibility to distress.
`re-mote', a.; comp. remoter; super/. remotest,
`!ME. remote; OFr. remot, masc., remote, £.,
`from L. remottts, pp. of removere, to remove.J
`1. distant in place; not near; far off; far
`away; as, a remote country; a remote people.
`2. far off and hidden away; secluded.
`3. distant in time, past or future; as, remote
`antiquity.
`4. distant; primary; not proximate or im(cid:173)
`mediate; far removed in influence; as, the
`remote causes of a disease.
`5. distant in connection, relation, bearing,
`or the like (from some matter); alien; foreign;
`not agreeing; as, a proposition remote from
`reason.
`6. abstracted; as, the mind placed by
`thought among or remote from all bodies.
`7, distant in consanguinity or affinity; as, a.
`remote kinsman.
`8. distant in human relations; aloof; as, re(cid:173)
`mote and cold in his manner.
`9. slight; inconsiderable; faint; as, a remote
`analogy between cases; a remote resemblance
`in form or color.
`10. in botany and zoology, separated by
`intervals or spaces greater than the ordinary.
`Syn.~distant, indirect, unconnected, o1nre(cid:173)
`lated, foreign, alien, heterogeneous, separate,
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