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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.

Re*mit", v. i. 1. 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.

2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.

Re*mit"ment (-ment), n. The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission.

Disavowing the remitment of Claudius.

Milton.

Re*mit"tal (-tal), n. A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.

Re*mit"tance (r?-m?t"tans), n. 1. 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.

2. The sum or thing remitted. Addison.

Re*mit`tee" (r?-m?t`t?"), n. (Com.) One to whom a remittance is sent.

Re*mit"tent (r?-m?t"tent), a. [L. remittens, p. pr. : cf. F. rémittent.] Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.

Remittent fever (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.

Re*mit"ter (-t?r), n. 1. One who remits. Specifically: (a) One who pardons. (b) One who makes remittance.

2. (Law) 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. Bouvier.

||Re*mit"ti*tur (-t?-t?r), n. [L., (it) is remitted.] (Law) (a) A ||remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of ||excess of damages. (b) A sending back, as when a record is remitted ||by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton.

Re*mit"tor (-t?r), n. (Law) One who makes a remittance; a remitter.

Re*mix" (r?-m?ks"), v. t. To mix again or repeatedly.

Rem"nant (r?m"nant), a. [OF. remanant, p. pr. of remanoir, remaindre. See Remanent, Remain.] Remaining; yet left. [R.] "Because of the remnant dregs of his disease." Fuller.

And quiet dedicate her remnant life To the just duties of an humble wife.

Prior.

Rem"nant, n. [OF. remanant. See Remnant, a.]