remit 
II. intrans. 1. To slacken; become less in- 
tense or rigorous. 
When our passions remit, the vehemence of our speech 
remits too. W. Broome, Notes on the Odyssey. (Johnson.) 
How often have I blest the coming day, 
When toil remitting lent its turn to play. 
Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 16. 
She [Sorrow] takes, when harsher moods remit, 
What slender shade of doubt may flit, 
And makes it vassal unto love. 
Tennyson, la Memoriam, xlvlii. 
2. To abate by growing less earnest, eager, or 
active. 
By degrees they remitted ot their industry, loathed their 
business, and gave way to their pleasures. South. 
3. In med., to abate in violence for a time with- 
out intermission: as, a fever remits at a cer- 
tain hour every day. 4. In com., to transmit 
money, etc. 
They obliged themselves to remit after the rate of twelve 
hundred thousand pounds sterling per annum. Addison. 
Remitting bilious fever, remitting icteric fever. 
remit (re-mif), n. [(remit, r.] 1. In Scots laic, 
a remission; a sending back. In judicial procedure, 
applied to an interlocutor or judgment transferring a 
cause either totally or partially, or for some specific pur- 
pose, from one tribunal or judge to another, or to a judi- 
cial nominee, for the execution of the purposes of the 
remit. 
2. A formal communication from a body hav- 
ing higher jurisdiction, to one subordinate to it. 
remitment (re-mit'ment), n. [< remit + -menl. 
Cf. It. rimettimento.] " The act of remitting, or 
the state of being remitted ; remission; remit- 
tance; forgiveness; pardon. 
Yet all law, and God's law especially, grants every where 
to error easy remUments, even where the utmost penalty 
exacted were no undoing. Milton, Tetrachordon. 
remittable (re-mit'a-bl), a. [< remit + -able.] 
Same as remissible. Cotgrave. 
remittal (re-mit'al), n. [< remit + -al.] 1. 
A remitting; a giving up; surrender. 2. The 
act of sending, as money; remittance. 
I received letters from some bishops of Ireland, to so- 
licit the Earl of Wharton about the remittal of the first- 
fruits and tenths to the clergy there. 
Sioift, Change In the Ministry. 
remittance (re-mit'ans), n. [< remit + -ance.] 
1. The act of 'transmitting money, bills, or the 
like, to another place. 2. A sum, bills, etc., 
remitted in payment. 
remittancer (re-mit'an-ser), n. [< remittance 
+ -W 1 .] One who sends a remittance. 
Your memorialist was stopped and arrested at Bayonne, 
by order from his remittaneers at Madrid. 
Cumberland, Memoirs, II. 170. (Latham.) 
remittee (re-mit-e'), n. [< remit + -eel.] A 
person to whom a remittance is sent. 
remittent (re-mit'ent), a. and n. [= F. rennet- 
tant = Sp. remiten'ie = Pg. remittente = It. rt- 
mettente, < L. remitten(t-Js, ppr. of remittere, 
remit, abate: see remit.] I. a. Temporarily 
abating; having remissions from time to time: 
noting diseases the symptoms of which di- 
minish very considerably, but never entirely 
disappear as in intermittent diseases Biliary 
epidemic, infantile, marsh remittent fever. See 
feveri. Remittent bilious fever. See /etwri. Re- 
mittent fever. See feveri. Yellow remittent fever 
See feveri. 
II. n. Same as remittent fever (which see, 
under fever' 1 ). 
remitter 1 (re-mit'er), n. [< remit + -erl.] One 
who remits, (a) One who makes remittance for pay- 
ment. (6) One who pardons. 
Not properly pardoners, forgivers, or remitters of sin, as 
though the sentence in heaven depended upon the sen- 
tence in earth. Fidke, Against Allen, p. 143. (Latham.) 
remitter 2 (re-mit'er), n. [< OF. remitter, re- 
mettre, inf. used as a noun: see remit, v.] In 
law, the sending or setting back of a person 
to a title or right he had before ; the restitu- 
tion of a more ancient and certain right to a 
person who has right to lands, but is out of pos- 
session, and has afterward the freehold cast 
upon him by some subsequent defective title, by 
operation of law, by virtue of which he enters, 
the law in such case reinstating him as if pos- 
sessing under his original title, free of encum- 
brances suffered by the possessor meanwhile. 
In Hillary term I went. 
You said, if I returned next 'size in Lent, 
I should be in remitter of your grace. 
Donne, Satires, 11. 
remitter (re-mit'or). n. [< remit + -or*.] In 
me, same as remitter^. 
remnant (rem'nant), a. and n. [Contr. from 
remenant, remanent, < ME. remenant, remenaunt, 
< OF. remenant, remenaunt, remainder: see re- 
mantnt.] I.f a. Remaining; yet left. 
2. Specifically, that which i 
last cutting of a web of cloth, 
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But when he once had entred Paradise, 
The remnant world he iustly did despise. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. 
And quiet dedicate her remnant Life 
To the just Duties of a humble Wife. 
Prior, Solomon, 11. 
II. n. 1. That which is left or remains ; the 
remainder; the rest. 
The remenant were anhanged, moore and lease, 
That were consentant of this cursednesse. 
Chaucer, Physician's Tale, 1. 275. 
The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the 
province are in great affliction and reproach. Neh. i. 3. 
Westward the wanton Zephyr wings his flight, 
Pleas'd with the remnants of departing light. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., i. 78. 
remains after the 
bolt of ribbon, or 
the like. 
Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant ! 
Shak., T. of the S., iv. s. 112. 
It is a garment made of remnants, a life ravelled out 
into ends, a line discontinued. Donne, Letters, iv. 
I am old and good for nothing; but, as the store-keepers 
say of their remnants of cloth, I am but a fag end, and you 
may have me for what you please to give. 
The Century, XXXV. 742. 
=Syn. Residue, etc. See remainder. 
Remoboth, Remboth (rem'o-both, rem'both), 
n. [Appar. Egypt.] In the early church, a 
class of monks who lived chiefly in cities in 
companies of two or three, without an abbot, 
and were accused of leading worldly and dis- 
orderly lives. Also called Sarabaitee. 
remodel (re-mod'el), v. t. [< F. remodeler, re- 
model; as re- + model, ?'.] To model, shape, 
or fashion anew; reconstruct. 
remodification (re-mod"i-fi-ka'shon), n. [< re- 
modify -t- -ation, after modification.] The act 
of modifying again ; a repeated modification or 
change. Imp. Diet. 
remodify (re-mod'i-fi), v. t. [< re- + modify.'} 
To modify again ; shape anew; reform. Imp. 
Diet. 
remold, remould (re-mold'), v. t. [< re- + 
mold*.] To mold or shape anew. H. Spencer, 
Prin. of Spciol., } 578. 
remoleculization (re-mol-e-ku-li-za'shqn), n. 
[< re- + molecule + -iee + -ation.'] JL rear- 
rangement among the molecules of a body, 
leading to the formation of new compounds. 
The purpose of this [book] ... is to suggest a theory 
of the manner in which the germs act in producing 
disease. It is that* through the power which the bac- 
teria possess in the remoleculization of matter, they cause 
the formation and diffusion through the system of organic 
alkalies having poisonous qualities comparable with those 
of strychnine. Pop. Set. Mo., XXVI. 1S4. 
remollient (re-mol'i-ent), a. [< L. remollien(t-)s, 
ppr. of remotlire, make soft again, soften : see 
re- smd mollify.] Mollifying; softening. [Bare.] 
remolten (re-mol'tn), p. a. [Pp. of remeit.] 
Melted again. 
It were good, therefore, to try whether glass remoulten 
do leesse any weight. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 799. 
remonetization (re-mon"e-ti-za'shon), n. [< F. 
remonetisation ; as remonetize + -dtion.] The 
act of remonetizing. 
remonetize (re-mon'e-tiz), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
remonetized, ppr. remonetizing. [< F. remonc- 
tiser; as re- + monetize.] To restore to circu- 
lation in the shape of money; make again a 
legal or standard money of account, as gold or 
silver coin. Also spelled remonetise. 
remonstrablet (re-mon'stra-bl), a. [< remon- 
stra(te) + -able.] Capable of demonstration. 
Was it such a sin for Adam to eat a forbidden apple ? 
Yes ; the greatness is remonstrable in the event. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 368. 
remonstrance (re-mon'strans), . [< OF. re- 
monstrance, F. remontranee = It. rimostranza, 
< ML. remonstrantia, < remonstran(t-)s, ppr. 
of remonstrare, remonstrate: see remonstrant.] 
If. The act of remonstrating ; demonstration; 
manifestation; show; exhibit; statement; rep- 
resentation. 
Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power. 
Shak., M. for M., v. 1. 397. 
The committee . . . concluded upon "a new general 
remonstrance to be made of the state of the kingdom." 
Clarendon, Civil Wars, I. 157. 
"Tis strange, 
Having seven years expected, and so much 
Remonstrance of her husband's loss at sea, 
She should continue thus. Shirley, Hyde Park, i. 1. 
2. The act of remonstrating; expostulation; 
strong representation of reasons, or statement 
of facts and reasons, against something com- 
plained of or opposed; hence, a paper contain- 
ing such a representation or statement. 
remonstrator 
A large family of daughters have drawn up a remon- 
strance, in which they set forth that, their father having 
refused to take in the Spectator . . . Addison. 
The English clergy, . . . when they have discharged the 
formal and exacted duties of religion, are not very for- 
ward, by gratuitous inspection and remonstrance, to keep 
alive and diffuse a due sense of religion in their parish- 
ioners. Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland, iii. 
3. In the Rom. Cath. Ch., same as monstrance. 
4. [cop.] In cedes, hist., a document consisting 
of five articles expressing the points of diver- 
gence of the Dutch Armiuians (Remonstrants) 
from strict Calvinism, presented to the states 
of Holland and West Friesland in 1610. The 
Grand Remonstrance, in Eng. hist., a remonstrance pre- 
sented to King Charles I., after adoption by the House of 
Commons, in 1641. It recited the recent abuses in the 
government, and outlined various reforms. =Syn. 2. Pro- 
test. See censure, v. 
remonstrant (re-mon'strant), . and n. [= F. 
remontrant = It. rimostrante, < ML. remon- 
stran(t-)s, ppr. of remonstrare, exhibit, remon- 
strate: see remonstrate.] I. a. 1. Expostula- 
tory; urging strong reasons against an act; 
inclined or tending to remonstrate. 
"There are very valuable books about antiquities. . . . 
Why should Mr. Casaubon's not be valuable? . . ." said 
Dorothea, with more remonstrant energy. 
George Eliot, Middleman*, xxii. 
2. Belonging or pertaining to the Arminian 
party called Remonstrants. 
II. . 1. One who remonstrates. 
The defence of the remonstrant, as far as we are in- 
formed of it, is that he ought not to be removed because 
he has violated no law of Massachusetts. 
W. Phillips, Speeches, etc., p. 159. 
Specifically 2. [cap.] One of the Arminians, 
who formulated their creed (A. D. 1610) in five 
articles entitled the Remonstrance. 
They have projected to reconcile the papists and the 
Lutherans and the Calvinists, the remonstrants and con- 
tra-remonstrants. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 54. 
remonstrantly (re-mon'strant-li), adv. In a 
remonstrant manner; remonstratively; as or 
by remonstrance. 
"Mother," said Deronda, remonstrantly, "don't let us 
think of It in that way." 
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Hii. 
remonstrate (re-mon'strat), v. ; pret. and pp. 
remonstrated, ppr. remonstrating. [< ML. re- 
monstratus, pp. ofremonstrare (> It. rimostrare = 
F. remontrer), exhibit, represent, demonstrate, 
< L. re-, again, + monstrare, show, exhibit: see 
monstration, monster, v., and cf. demonstrate.] 
1. intrans. If. To exhibit; demonstrate; prove. 
It [the death of Lady Carbery] was not ... of so much 
trouble as two fits of a common ague ; so careful was God 
to remonstrate to all that stood in that sad attendance 
that this soul was dear to him. 
Jer. Taylor, Funeral Sermon on Lady Carbery. 
2. To exhibit or present strong reasons against 
an act, measure, or any course of proceedings ; 
expostulate: as, to remonstrate with a person 
onhis conduct ; conscience remonstrates against 
a profligate life. 
Corporal Trim by being in the service had learned to 
obey, and not to remonstrate. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, U. 15. 
=Syn. 2. Reprove, Rebuke, etc. (see censure), object, pro- 
test, reason, complain. 
Il.t trans. 1. To show by a strong represen- 
tation of reasons; set forth forcibly; show 
clearly. 
I consider that in two very great instances it was re- 
monstrated that Christianity was the greatest prosecution 
of natural Justice and equality in the whole world. 
Jer. Taylor, Great Exemplar, Pref., p. 15. 
De L'Isle, alarmed at the cruel purport of this unex- 
pected visit, remonstrated to his brother officer the unde- 
slgning and good-natured warmth of his friend. 
Hist. Duelling (1770), p. 145. 
2. To show or point out again. 
I will remonstrate to you the third door. B. Jonson. 
remonstration (re-mon-stra'shon), n. [< ML. 
remonstratio(n-),< remonstrare, exhibit: see 
remonstrate.] The act of remonstrating; a 
remonstrance. 
He went many times over the case of his wife, the judg- 
ment of the doctor, his own repeated remonstration. 
Harper's Mag., LXIV. 243. 
remonstrative (re-mon'stra-tiv), a. [< remon- 
strate + -ive.] Of, belonging to, or charac- 
terized by remonstrance; expostulatory; re- 
monstrant. Imp. Diet. 
remonstratively (re-mon'stra-tiv-li), adv. In 
a remonstrative manner; remonstrantly. Imp. 
Diet. 
remonstrator (re-mon'stra-tor), n. [< remon- 
strate + -or 1 .] 'One who remonstrates; a re- 
monstrant. 
And orders were sent down for clapping up three of the 
chief remonstrators. Bp. Burnet, Hist, Own Times, an. 1660. 
