remise

American  

[ri-mahyz] / rɪˈmaɪz /

verb (used with object)

Law.

remised, remising

1. to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.

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remise British  

/ rɪˈmaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) law to give up or relinquish (a right, claim, etc); surrender

2. fencing to make a renewed thrust on the same lunge after the first has missed

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noun

1. fencing a second thrust made on the same lunge after the first has missed

2. obsolete a hired carriage

3. obsolete a coach house

Etymology

Origin of remise

1475–85; < Middle French, feminine past participle of remettre to put back, deliver < Latin remittere to remit

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

remise

Jon Levy—who I would be remise if I didn’t mention once worked as an informercial “Before and After” model—hosted his first dinner party almost four years ago.

From Forbes ● Jun. 11, 2013

Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust.

From Time Magazine Archive

They went in an ordinary remise, the three ladies wearing common bonnets and mantillas, and her Majesty having a black veil over her face.

From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

We at once engaged the latter functionary, ordered the remise of the hotel to wait for us, and started upon two days of eager but weary sight-seeing.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

But under the protection of the fencing mask a new school of foil-play was evolved, one in which swiftness and inveteracy of attack and parry, of riposte, remise, counter-riposte and reprise, assumed an all-important character.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

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