remlniscentially 
reminiscentially (rein"i-ni-sen'shal-i), adv. In 
a reminiscential manner ; by way of calling to 
mind. 
Beminiscere Sunday. [So called because the 
Sarum introit, taken from Ps. xxv. 6, begins 
with the word reminiscere (L. reminiscere, impv. 
of reminisci, remember: see reminiscent).] The 
second Sunday in Lent. Also Beminiscere. 
reminisciont, . [Irreg. < reminisc(ent) + -ion.~\ 
Remembrance ; reminiscence. 
Stir my thoughts 
With reminiscion of the spirit's promise. 
Chapman, Bussy D'Amboia, v. 1. 
reminiscitory (rem-i-nis'i-to-ri), a. [< reminis- 
c(ent) + -it-ory.} Remembering, or having to do 
with the memory ; reminiseential. [Bare.] 
I still bore a reminiscitory spite against Mr. Job Jonson, 
which I was fully resolved to wn ' 
litdu-cr. Felham, Ixxiii. 
remiped (rem'i-ped), a. and n. [< LL. remipes, 
oar-iooted, < L. remus, an oar, +pes (ped-) = E. 
foot!} I. a. Having oar-shaped feet, or feet 
that are used as oars ; oar-footed. 
II. a. A remiped animal, as a crustacean or 
an insect. 
Remipes (rem'i-pez), n. [NL. : see remiped.'} 
1. In Crustacea, a genus of crabs of the fam- 
ily Hippidee. R. testudinarius is an Australian 
species. 2. Inentom. : (a) A genus of coleop- 
terous insects. (b) A genus of hemipterous 
insects. 
remise (re-miz'), [< OF. remise, delivery, 
release, restoration, reference, remitting, etc., 
P. remise, a delivery, release, allowance, de- 
lay, livery (voiture de remise, a livery-carriage) ; 
cf. LL. remissa, pardon, remission; < L. re- 
missa, fern, of remissus (> F. remis), pp. of 
remittere (> F. remettre), remit, release: see 
remit.] 1. In law, a granting back; a surren- 
der; release, as of a claim. 2. A livery-car- 
riage : so called (for French voiture de remise) 
as kept in a carriage-house, and distinguished 
from a fiacre or hackney-coach, which is found 
on a stand in the public street. 
This has made Glass for Coaches very cheap and com- 
mon, so that even many of the Fiacres or Hackneys, and 
all the Remises, have one large Glass before. 
Lister, Journey to Parts, p. 142. 
3. In fencing, a second thrust which hits the 
mark after the first thrust has missed, made 
while the fencer is extended in the lunge, in 
modern fencing for points the remise is discouraged, be- 
ing often ignored by judges as a count, because greater 
elegance and fairness are obtained if the fencer returns 
to his guard when his first thrust has not reached, and 
parries the return blow of his opponent 
remise (re-mlz'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. remised, 
ppr. remising. [< remise, n.} If. To send back ; 
remit. 
Yet think not that this Too-too-Much remises 
Ought into nought ; it but the Form disguises. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, 1. 2. 
2. To give or grant back ; release a claim to ; 
resign or surrender by deed. 
The words generally used therein [that is, in releases] 
are remised, released, and for ever quit-claimed. 
Blaclrstone, Com., II. xx. 
remiss (re-mis'), a. and n. [= OF. remis, F. 
remis = Sp. remiso = Pg. remisso = It. rimesso, 
< L. remissus, slack, remiss, pp. of remittere, 
remit, slacken, etc.: see remit.] I. a. 1. Not 
energetic or diligent in performance; careless 
in performing duty or business; not comply- 
ing with engagements at all, or not in due 
time; negligent; dilatory; slack. 
The prince must think me tardy and remiss. 
Shot., T. and C., iv. 4. 143. 
It often happens that they who are most secure of truth 
on their side are most apt to be remiss and careless, and 
to comfort themselves with some good old sayings, as God 
will provide, and Truth will prevail. 
StUKngfleet, Sermons, II. i. 
Bashfulness, melancholy, timorousness, cause many of 
us to be too backward and remiss. 
Burton, An at. of MeL, p. 197. 
2. Wanting earnestness or activity; slow; 
relaxed; languid. 
The water deserts the corpuscles, unless it flow with a 
precipitate motion ; for then it hurries them out along 
with it, till its motion becomes more languid and remiss. 
Woodward. 
=Syn. 1. Neglectful, etc. (see negligent), careless, thought- 
less inattentive, slothful, backward, behindhand. 
Il.t . An act of negligence. 
Such mannerof men as, by negligence of Magistrates and 
remisses of lawes, euery countrie breedeth great store of. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie (ed. ArberX p. 55. 
remissailest, n. pi. [ME. remyssailes, < OF. *re- 
missaileis, < remis, pp. of remettre, cast aside : 
5070 
see remiss, remit."} Leavings; scraps; pieces 
of refuse. 
Laade not thy trenchour with many remyssailes. 
Babees Book (E. E. T: S.), p. 28. 
remissful (re-mis'ful), . [< remiss + -ful.} 
Beady to grant remission or pardon ; forgiving ; 
gracious. [Bare.] 
As though the Heavens, in their remiss/id doom, 
Took those best-lov'd from worser days to come. 
Drayton, Barons' Wars, i. 11. 
remissibility (re-mis-i-bil'i-ti), . [< remissible 
+ -ity (see -bility).} Capability of being remit- 
ted orabated ; the characterof beingremissible. 
This is a greater testimony of the certainty of the re- 
missibility of our greatest sins. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, v. 5. 
The eleventh and last of all the properties that seem to 
be requisite in a lot of punishment is that of remissibility. 
Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xv. 25. 
remissible (re-mis'i-bl), a. [< OF. remissible, 
F. remissible = Sp. remisible = Pg. remissive! = 
It. remissibile, < LL. remissibilis, pardonable, 
easy, light, < L. remittere, pp. remissus, remit, 
pardon: see remit, remiss.} Capable of being 
remitted or forgiven. 
They [papists] allow them [certain sins] to be such as 
deserve punishment, although such as are easily pardon- 
able : remissible, of course, or expiable by an easy peni- 
tence. Feltham, Resolves, ii. 9. 
remissio injuriae (re-mis'i-6 in-jo'ri-e). [L.: 
remissio, remission; injuries, gen. of injuria, in- 
jury: see injury.} In Scots law, in an action 
of divorce for adultery, a plea implying that 
the pursuer has already forgiven the offense; 
condonation. 
remission (re-mish'on), n. [< ME. remission, 
remissioun, < OF. remission, F. remission = Pr. 
remissio = Sp. remision = Pg. remissdo = It. re- 
missione. rimissione, < L. remissio(n-), a sending 
back, relaxation, < remittere, pp. remissus, send 
back, remit: see remit.} The act of remitting, 
(at) The act of sending back. 
The (ate of her [Lot's wife] . . . gave rise to the poets' 
fiction of the loss of Eurydice and her remission into hell, 
for her husband's turning to look upon her. 
Stackhoiute, Hist Bible, iii. L (Latham.) 
(b) The act of sending to a distant place, as money ; re- 
mittance. 
The remission of a million every year to England. 
Swift, To the Abp. of Dublin, Concerning the Weavers. 
(c) Abatement ; a temporary subsidence, as of the force 
or violence of a disease or of pain, as distinguished from 
intermission, in which the disease leaves the patient en- 
tirely for a time. 
Remittent [fever] has a morning remission; yellow fever 
has not Quain, Med. Diet, p. 1335. 
((0 Diminution or cessation of intensity ; abatement ; re- 
laxation ; moderation : as, the remission of extreme rigor ; 
the remission of close study or of labor. 
As too much bending breaketh the bowe, so too much 
remission spoyleth the mimic. 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat of Wit, p. 112. 
Darkness fell 
Without remission of the blast or shower. 
Wordsworth. 
(e) Discharge or relinquishment, as of a debt, claim, or 
right ; a giving up : as, the remission of a tax or duty. 
Another ground of the bishop's fears Is the remission of 
the first fruits and tenths. Steifl. 
(/) The act of forgiving ; forgiveness ; pardon ; the giving 
up of the punishment due to a crime. 
Neuerthelesse, to them that with deuocion beholde it 
afer is graunted clene remyssyon. 
Sir J{. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 30. 
My penance is to call Lucetta back, 
Ana ask remission for my folly past 
Shak., T. G. of V., L 2. 65. 
All wickedness is weakness ; that plea therefore 
With God or man will gain thee no remission. 
MUtan, S. A., L 835. 
Intension and remission of format. See intension. 
Remission of sins, in Scrip. , del iverance from the guilt 
and penalty of sin. The same word (o*ris)is in the author- 
ized version translated remission (Mat. xxvi. 28, etc. ), for- 
giveness (Col. i. 14), and deliverarux (Luke iv. 18). Re- 
mission Thursday. Same as Maundy Thursday (which 
see, under maundy). = Syn. (/) Absolution, etc. See par- 
don. 
remissive (re-mis'iv), a. [= Sp. remisivo, < L. 
remissims, relaxing, laxative: see remiss.} 1. 
Slackening; relaxing; causing abatement. 
Who bore by turns great AJax' seven-fold shield ; 
Whene'er he breathed remissive of his might, 
Tired with the incessant slaughters of the fight. 
Pope, Iliad, xiii. 887. 
2. Remitting; forgiving; pardoning. 
Lord, of thy abounding love 
To my offence remissive be. 
Wither, tr. of the Psalms, p. 96. (Latham.) 
remissly (re-mis'li), adv. In a remiss or negli- 
gent manner ; carelessly ; without close atten- 
tion; slowly; slackly; not vigorously; lan- 
guidly ; without ardor. 
remit 
remissness (re-mis'nes), n. The state or char- 
acter of being remiss; slackness; carelessness; 
negligence; lack of ardor or vigor; lack of at- 
tention to any business, duty, or engagement in 
the proper time or with the requisite industry. 
The extraordinary remiwencsse of discipline had (til his 
coming) much detracted from the reputation of that Col- 
ledg. Evelyn, Diary, May 10, 1637. 
= Syn. Oversight, etc. See negligence. 
remissory (re-mis'o-ri), a. [= Sp. remisorio, 
< ML. "remissorius, remissory, < L. remittere, pp. 
remissus, remit : see remiss, remit.} Pertaining 
to remission; serving or tending to remit ; ob- 
taining remission. 
They would have us saved by a daily oblation propitia- 
tory, by a sacrifice expiatory or remissory. 
Latimer, Sermon of the 1'lough. 
remit (re-mif), t 1 . ; pret. and pp. remitted, ppr. 
remitting. [Early mod. E. also remytte; < ME. 
remitten, < OF. remettre, remetre, also remitter, 
F. remettre = Pr. remetre = Sp. remitir = Pg. 
remittir = It. rimettere, < L. remittere, send back, 
abate, remit (LL. pardon), < re-, back, + mit- 
tere, send: see missile, mission. Cf. admit, com- 
mit, emit, permit*, etc.] I. trans. If. To send 
back. 
And, reverent malster, remitte me summe letter by the 
bringer her of. Paston Letters, II. 67. 
Whether earth *s an animal, and air 
Imbibes, her lungs with coolness to repair, 
And what she sucks, remits, she still requires 
Inlets for ah 1 , and outlets for her fires. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., xv. 
2. To transmit or send, as money, bills, or other 
things in payment for goods received. 
I have received that money which was remitted here in 
order to release me from captivity. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Ixxvi. 
He promised to remit me what he owed me out of the 
first money he should receive, but I never heard of him 
after. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 58. 
3. To restore ; replace. 
In this case the law remits him to his ancient and more 
certain right Blackstone. (Imp. Diet.) 
4. To transfer. [Rare.] 
He that vsed to teache did not commonlie vse to beate, 
but remitted that ouer to an other mans charge. 
Ascham, The Scholemxster, p. 48. 
5. In law, to transfer (a cause) from one tribu- 
nal or judge to another, particularly from an 
appellate court to the court of original juris- 
diction. See remit, n. 6. To refer. 
Wheche mater I remytte ondly to youre ryght wyse dls- 
crecion. Patton Letters, I. 321. 
In the sixth Year of his Reign, a Controversy arising 
between the two Archbishops of Canterbury and York, 
they appealed to Rome, and the Pope remitted it to the 
King and Bishops of England. Bolter, Chronicles, p. 28. 
How I have 
Studied your fair opinion, I remit 
To time. Shirley, Hyde Park, ii. 4. 
The arbiter, an officer to whom the praetor is supposed 
to have remitted questions of fact as to a Jury. 
Encye. Brit., II. 812. 
7. To give or deliver up ; surrender; resign. 
Prin. Will you have me, or your pearl again? 
Btron. Neither of either; I remit both twain. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 469. 
The Egyptian crown I to your hands remit. 
Dryden, Tyrannic Love, lit 1. 
8. To slacken; relax the tension of; hence, 
figuratively, to diminish in intensity; make 
less intense or violent ; abate. 
Those other motives which gave the animadversions no 
leave to remit a contlnuall vehemence throughout the 
book. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
As when a bow is successively intended and remitted. 
Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 222. 
In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to 
find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy 
means of obtaining the same end. 
Johnson, Rambler, No. 65. 
9. To refrain from exacting; give up, in whole 
or in part : as, to remit punishment. 
Thy slanders I forgive ; and therewithal 
Remit thy other forfeits. Shak., M. forM.,v. 1. B26. 
Remit awhile the harsh command, 
And hear me, or my heart will break. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 243. 
10. To pardon; forgive. 
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them. 
John xx. 23. 
'Tis the law 
That, If the party who complains remit 
The offender, he is freed : is 't not so, lords? 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, v. 1. 
Remit 
What 's past, and I will meet your best affection. 
Shirley, Hyde Park, v. 1. 
lit. To omit; cease doing. [Rare.] 
I have remitted my verses all thiswhile; I think I have 
forgot them. B. Jrmson, Poetaster, iiL 1. 
= Syn. 2. To forward. 9. To release, relinquish. 
