demit
1 Americanverb (used with object)
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to resign (a job, public office, etc.); relinquish.
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Archaic. to dismiss; fire.
verb (used without object)
noun
verb (used with object)
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to put in or send to a lower place.
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Obsolete. to lower in status, rank, or esteem; humble.
verb
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to resign (an office, position, etc)
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(tr) to dismiss
Etymology
Origin of demit1
1520–30; < Middle French demettre, Old French demetre < Latin dēmittere to demit 2 (but also with some senses of Latin dīmittere send away, dismiss, equivalent to dī- di- 2 + mittere to send)
Origin of demit2
1550–60; < Latin dēmittere to let fall, send down, equivalent to dē- de- + mittere to send
Example Sentences
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Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hoc si tu gustabit nectar, Si sis Paris fies Hector, Iras demit inquietas, In memento facit l�tas; Pro doloribus est solamen, Pro pulicibus medicamen; O Pampine! habe tibi, Bibe tu cum ego bibi.
From Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
Isnard, repentant of that search on which river-bank Paris stood, declares himself ready to demit.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Argentum cupidus fuluo secernit ab auro, Et plumbi lentam demit utrique moram.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
An authority pregnant to predetermine continental issues for unnumbered years to come, however dread its weight, and however frail and faint his mortal strength, he may not demit.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
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