Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 39

Remitted (imp. & p. p.) of Remit

Remitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remit

Remit (v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

Remit (v. t.) To restore.

Remit (v. t.) 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.

Remit (v. t.) 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.

Remit (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.

Remit (v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.

Remit (v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.

Remit (v. i.) 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.

Remit (v. i.) To send money, as in payment.

Remitment (n.) The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission.

Remittal (n.) A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits.

Remittance (n.) 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.

Remittance (n.) The sum or thing remitted.

Remittee (n.) One to whom a remittance is sent.

Remittent (a.) Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.

Remitter (n.) One who remits.

Remitter (n.) One who pardons.

Remitter (n.) One who makes remittance.

Remitter (n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit.

Remittitur (n.) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages.

Remittitur (n.) A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court.

Remittor (n.) One who makes a remittance; a remitter.

Remix (v. t.) To mix again or repeatedly.

Remnant (a.) Remaining; yet left.

Remnant (a.) That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue.

Remnant (a.) A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap.

Remnant (a.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

Remodel (v. t.) To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.

Remodification (n.) The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.

Remodify (v. t.) To modify again or anew; to reshape.

Remolade (n.) Alt. of Remoulad

Remoulad (n.) A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.

Remold (v. t.) Alt. of Remould

Remould (v. t.) To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.

Remollient (a.) Mollifying; softening.

Remonetization (n.) The act of remonetizing.

Remonetize (v. t.) To restore to use as money; as, to remonetize silver.

Remonstrance (n.) The act of remonstrating

Remonstrance (n.) A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration.

Remonstrance (n.) Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.

Remonstrance (n.) Same as Monstrance.

Remonstrant (a.) Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.

Remonstrant (n.) One who remonstrates

Remonstrant (n.) one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618. See Arminian.

Remonstrantly (adv.) In a remonstrant manner.

Remonstrated (imp. & p. p.) of Remonstrate

Remonstrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remonstrate

Remonstrate (v. t.) To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

Remonstrate (v. i.) To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation.

Remonstration (n.) The act of remonstrating; remonstrance.

Remonstrative (a.) Having the character of a remonstrance; expressing remonstrance.

Remonstrator (n.) One who remonstrates; a remonsrant.

Remontant (a.) Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.

Remontoir (n.) See under Escapement.

Remora (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance.

Remora (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.

Remora (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.

Remorate (v. t.) To hinder; to delay.

Remord (v. t.) To excite to remorse; to rebuke.

Remord (v. i.) To feel remorse.

Remordency (n.) Remorse; compunction; compassion.

Remorse (n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.

Remorse (n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.

Remorsed (a.) Feeling remorse.

Remorseful (a.) Full of remorse.

Remorseful (a.) Compassionate; feeling tenderly.

Remorseful (a.) Exciting pity; pitiable.

Remorseless (a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless.

Remote (superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.

Remote (superl.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.

Remote (superl.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign.

Remote (superl.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

Remote (superl.) Separate; abstracted.

Remote (superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.

Remote (superl.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

Remote (superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.

Remotion (n.) The act of removing; removal.

Remotion (n.) The state of being remote; remoteness.

Remould (v. t.) See Remold.

Remount (v. t. & i.) To mount again.

Remount (n.) The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.

Removable (a.) Admitting of being removed.

Removal (n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed.

Removed (imp. & p. p.) of Remove

Removing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remove

Remove (v. t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

Remove (v. t.) To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.

Remove (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

Remove (v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.

Remove (n.) The act of removing; a removal.

Remove (n.) The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.

Remove (n.) The state of being removed.

Remove (n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

Remove (n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

Remove (n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

Removed (a.) Changed in place.

Removed (a.) Dismissed from office.

Removed (a.) Distant in location; remote.

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