Word Meanings - REMIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 4. To send off or away; hence: To refer or direct for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . .

Additional info about word: REMIT

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. 4. To send off or away; hence: To refer or direct for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. To submit, refer, or leave for judgment or decision. "Whether the counsel be good Iremit it to the wise readers." Sir T. Elyot. 5. To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate. So willingly doth God remit his ire. Milton. 6. To forgive; to pardon; to remove. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them. John xx. 23. 7. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation. "The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties." Macaulay. Syn. -- To relax; release; abate; relinguish; forgive; pardon; absolve. (more info) relax; pref. re- re- + mittere to send. See Mission, and cf. Remise, 1. To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign. In the case the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right. Blackstone. In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince. Hayward. The prisoner was remitted to the guard. Dryden. 2. To restore. The archbishop was . . . remitted to his liberty. Hayward.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REMIT)

• Alleviate
• Lighten
• lessen
• assuage
• mitigate
• soothe
• moderate
• relieve
• remit
• diminish
• Allow
• Concede
• apportion
• allot
• assign
• afford
• tolerate
• authorize
• grant
• recognize
• acknowledge
• avow
• confess
• admit
• permit
• suffer
• sanction
• yield
• Pardon
• Forgive
• condone
• absolve
• acquit
• excuse
• overlook
• Relax
• Slacken
• loosen
• abate
• release
• unbend
• relent
• divert
• recreate
• rest
• enervate
• Unstring
• Loosen
• withhold
• languish
• flag

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REMIT)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to REMIT)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• RELENT
  1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• CONFESSIONALISM
  An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith. Shaff.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.