2. An insane person; a madman; a bedlamite. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One of an extinct English order of monks. [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ peacocks ] demit and let fall the same [ i. e., their train ]. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lay down, as an office; to resign. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

General Conway demitted his office. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit
His fatal arrows. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit. [ 1913 Webster ]

No State shall . . . emit bills of credit. Const. of the U. S. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. “The extremity of bodily pain.” Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament. Milton.

Syn. -- Verge; border; extreme; end; termination. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid.
Syn. -- nonpayment, default. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. To send money, as in payment. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the case the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prisoner was remitted to the guard. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To restore. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The archbishop was . . . remitted to his liberty. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. “Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen.” Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision. “Whether the counsel be good I remit it to the wise readers.” Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate. [ 1913 Webster ]

So willingly doth God remit his ire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To forgive; to pardon; to remove. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them. John xx. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation. “The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To relax; release; abate; relinguish; forgive; pardon; absolve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disavowing the remitment of Claudius. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sum or thing remitted. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Remittent fever (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]