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  • English Word Remise Definition A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim.
  • English Word Remised Definition of Remise
  • English Word Remising Definition of Remise
  • English Word Remiss Definition Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
  • English Word Remiss Definition The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure.
  • English Word Remissful Definition Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement.
  • English Word Remissibility Definition The state or quality of being remissible.
  • English Word Remissible Definition Capable of being remitted or forgiven.
  • English Word Remission Definition The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
  • English Word Remission Definition Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
  • English Word Remission Definition Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
  • English Word Remission Definition A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
  • English Word Remission Definition The act of sending back.
  • English Word Remission Definition Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
  • English Word Remissive Definition Remitting; forgiving; abating.
  • English Word Remissly Definition In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
  • English Word Remissness Definition Quality or state of being remiss.
  • English Word Remissory Definition Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive.
  • English Word Remit Definition To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
  • English Word Remit Definition To restore.
  • English Word Remit Definition To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
  • English Word Remit Definition To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
  • English Word Remit Definition To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
  • English Word Remit Definition To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
  • English Word Remit Definition To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
  • English Word Remit Definition To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
  • English Word Remit Definition To send money, as in payment.
  • English Word Remitment Definition The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission.
  • English Word Remittal Definition A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits.
  • English Word Remittance Definition The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.