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
On the contrary, Lanjuinais the Breton declares that there is one man who never will demit voluntarily; but will protest to the uttermost, while a voice is left him.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Yas suh, dey had to have a demit to go any place outside work hours.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration
FAUCHET, Abbe, at siege of Bastille, his Te-Deums, his harangue on Franklin, his Cercle Social, in First Parliament, motion by, doffs his insignia, King's death, lamentation, will demit, trial of.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
So that La Mettrie had to demit; to get out of France rather in a hurry, lest worse befell.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
I am particularly at leisure, having demitted all care of the farm to Mr. Charles, and committed all the income thereof to him, down to the smallest hen's-egg.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
To the public, however, it seemed doubtful whether the Conservatives would be in power when the Indian Viceroyalty actually demitted; and, as a matter of fact, they had resigned before that event took place.
From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by William Wilson Hunter
On the 2d of October Mr. McPherson arrived from Canada, and I forthwith demitted the charge.
From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by John M'lean
We don't seem yet to have demitted our privilege of talking after service.
From Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
By a Joint Demarcation Commission in 1868 the Russo Chinese boundary in respect to Uriankhai was demitted and eight wooden boundary posts were erected to mark their respective frontiers.
From The Fight For The Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
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