OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13673

remit

/ɹɪˈmɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
remesar (remittances) • remitir
To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post.
Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the g…
remitir
To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
remitir
To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
The Pris’ner was remitted to the Guard.
[...] in grieuous and inhumane crimes, in such as ouerthrow the foundation of state, in such as shake the surety of humane society, I conceiue it more fit that offenders should be…