Definition of remit

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Remit (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits..

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Outrance :: Outrance (n.) The utmost or last extremity.
Remittitur :: Remittitur (n.) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages..
Fork :: Fork (n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork..
Blowhole :: Blowhole (n.) A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity..
Throughout :: Throughout (prep.) Quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house..
Bridgehead :: Bridgehead (n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont..
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture..
Lift :: Lift (n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
Utterance :: Utterance (n.) The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.
Extremities :: Extremities (pl. ) of Extremit.
Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..
Drawback :: Drawback (n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied..
Center :: Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place..
Pessulus :: Pessulus (n.) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
Eremitism :: Eremitism (n.) The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.
Filipendulous :: Filipendulous (a.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets..
Loose :: Loose (a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit..
Remittee :: Remittee (n.) One to whom a remittance is sent.
List :: List (n.) A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat..
Remit :: Remit (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits..
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