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Remitted

Remit \Re*mit"\ (r?-m?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Remitting.] [L. remittere, remissum, to send back, to slacken, relax; pref. re- re- + mittere to send. See Mission, and cf. Remise, Remiss.]

  1. To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

    In the case the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right.
    --Blackstone.

    In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.
    --Hayward.

    The prisoner was remitted to the guard.
    --Dryden.

  2. To restore. [Obs.]

    The archbishop was . . . remitted to his liberty.
    --Hayward.

  3. (Com.) 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.

  4. To send off or away; hence:

    1. To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. ``Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen.''
      --Sir T. Elyot.

    2. To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision. ``Whether the counsel be good I remit it to the wise readers.''
      --Sir T. Elyot.

  5. To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.

    So willingly doth God remit his ire.
    --Milton.

  6. To forgive; to pardon; to remove.

    Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them.
    --John xx. 23.

  7. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation. ``The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties.''
    --Macaulay.

    Syn: To relax; release; abate; relinguish; forgive; pardon; absolve.

Wiktionary
remitted

vb. (en-past of: remit)

WordNet
remit
  1. n. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) [syn: remission, remitment]

  2. [also: remitting, remitted]

remit
  1. v. send (money) in payment; "remit $25"

  2. hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, put off]

  3. release from (claims, debts, or taxes); "The texes were remitted"

  4. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committe or authority or court for decision [syn: remand, send back]

  5. forgive; "God will remit their sins"

  6. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: slacken]

  7. diminish or abate; "The pain finally remitted"

  8. [also: remitting, remitted]

remitted

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Usage examples of "remitted".

The humanity of his predecessors had always remitted, in some auspicious circumstance of their reign, the arrears of the public tribute, and they dexterously assumed the merit of resigning those claims which it was impracticable to enforce.

All fines made with us unjustly and against the law of the land, and all amercements, imposed unjustly and against the law of the land, shall be entirely remitted, or else it shall be done concerning them according to the decision of the five and twenty barons whom mention is made below in the clause for securing the pease, or according to the judgment of the majority of the same, along with the aforesaid Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and such others as he may wish to bring with him for this purpose, and if he cannot be present the business shall nevertheless proceed without him, provided always that if any one or more of the aforesaid five and twenty barons are in a similar suit, they shall be removed as far as concerns this particular judgment, others being substituted in their places after having been selected by the rest of the same five and twenty for this purpose only, and after having been sworn.

For if the very small sins which attach even to the life of the righteous be not remitted without that condition, how much further from obtaining indulgence shall those be who are involved in many great crimes, if, while they cease from perpetrating such enormities, they still inexorably refuse to remit any debt incurred to themselves, since the Lord says, "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses?

And even had they denied Him under pressure of the fear of death, this too would have been forgiven them in that baptism, in which was remitted even the enormous wickedness of those who had slain Christ.

Consequently they conclude that, though a man has led an abandoned life up to the last day of it, yet whatsoever his sins have been, they are all remitted by virtue of this daily prayer, if only he has been mindful to attend to this one thing, that when they who have done him any injury ask his pardon, he forgive them from his heart.

For were there not some whose sins, though not remitted in this life, shall be remitted in that which is to come, it could not be truly said, "They shall not be forgiven, neither in this world, neither in that which is to come.

For, say they, as there is no day on which Christians ought not to use this prayer, so there is no sin of any kind which, though committed every day, is not remitted when we say, "Forgive us our debts," if we take care to fulfill what follows, "as we forgive our debtors.

And all the ill-will, hatreds, and bitterness that have arisen between us and our men, clergy and lay, from the date of the quarrel, we have completely remitted and pardoned every one.

Moreover, all trespasses occasioned by the said quarrel, from Easter in the sixteenth year of our reign till the restoration of peace, we have fully remitted to all, both clergy and laymen, and completely forgiven, as far as pertains to us.

And all the will, hatreds, and bitterness that have arisen between us and our men, clergy and lay, from the date of the quarrel, we have completely remitted and pardoned to everyone.

The Duke Namo and the rest, deciding that the question should be remitted to the judgment of Heaven, the combat was ordained, to which Charlemagne unwillingly consented.