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.
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.
Remit (v. t.) To restore. [Obs.]
The archbishop was . . . remitted to his liberty. -- Hayward.
Remit (v. t.) (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.
Remit (v. t.) To send off or away; hence:
Remit (v. t.) (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." -- Sir T. Elyot.
Remit (v. t.) (b) 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.
Remit (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
Remit (v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them. -- John xx. 23.
Remit (v. t.) 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.
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. -- Addison.
Remit (n.) The topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with; "they set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for strengthening family life."
Remit (n.) (Law) The act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) [syn: remission, remitment, remit].
Remit (v.) Send (money) in payment; "remit $25."
Remit (v.) Hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off].
Remit (v.) Release from (claims, debts, or taxes); "The taxes were remitted."
Remit (v.) Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision [syn: remit, remand, send back].
Remit (v.) Forgive; "God will remit their sins."
Remit (v.) Make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: slacken, remit].
Remit (v.) Diminish or abate; "The pain finally remitted."
Remitment (n.) The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission.
Disavowing the remitment of Claudius. -- Milton.
Remitment (n.) A payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance, remittal, remission, remitment].
Remitment (n.) (Law) The act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) [syn: remission, remitment, remit].
Remittal (n.) A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. -- Swift.
Remittal (n.) A payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance, remittal, remission, remitment].
Remittal (n.) An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" [syn: remission, remittal, subsidence].
Remittal (n.) The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance [syn: absolution, remission, remittal, remission of sin].
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. -- Addison.
Remittance (n.) A payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance, remittal, remission, remitment].
Remittance, () comm. law. Money sent by one merchant to another, either in specie, bill of exchange, draft or otherwise.
Remittee (n.) (Com.) One to whom a remittance is sent.
Remittee, () contracts. A person to whom a remittance is made. Story on Bailm. Sec. 75.
Remittent (a.) 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.
Decreased (a.) Made less in size or amount or degree. Opposite of increased. [Narrower terms: attenuate, attenuated, faded,
weakened; belittled, diminished, small; cut, cut-rate; diminished, lessened; minimized; remittent; attenuated].
Syn: reduced.
Remittent (a.) (Of a disease) Characterized by periods of diminished severity; "a remittent fever."
Remitter (n.) One who remits. Specifically:
Remitter (n.) One who pardons.
Remitter (n.) One who makes remittance.
Remitter (n.) (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.
Remitter, () estates. To be placed back in possession.
Remitter, () When one having a right to lands is out of possession, and afterwards the freehold is cast upon him by some defective title, and he enters by virtue of that title, the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right and by an equitable fiction, supposes him to have gained possession under it. 3 Bl. Com. 190; 18 Vin. Ab. 431; 7 Com. Dig. 234.
Remittitur (n.) (Law) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages.
Remittitur (n.) (Law) A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court. -- Wharton.
Remittor (n.) (Law) One who makes a remittance; a remitter.
Remittor, () Contracts. A person who makes a remittance to another.
Remix (v. t.) To mix again or repeatedly.
Remnant (a.) 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.
Remnant (n.) That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue. -- Chaucer.
The remnant that are left of the captivity. -- Neh. i. 3.
The remnant of my tale is of a length To tire your patience. -- Dryden.
Remnant (n.) A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap.
Some odd quirks and remnants of wit. -- Shak.
Remnant (n.) (Com.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Syn: Residue; rest; remains; remainder.
Remnant (n.) A small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists [syn: leftover, remnant].
Remnant (n.) A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold [syn: end, remainder, remnant, oddment].
Remodel (v. t.) To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.
The corporation had been remodeled. -- Macaulay.
Remodel (v.) Do over, as of (part of) a house; "We are remodeling these rooms" [syn: remodel, reconstruct, redo].
Remodel (v.) Cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state" [syn: recast, reforge, remodel].
Remodification (n.) The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.
Remodify (v. t.) To modify again or anew; to reshape. Remolade
Remolade (n.) Alt. of Remoulad.
Remoulad (n.) A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.
Remoulad (n.) An ointment used in farriery. Remold
Remold (v. t.) Alt. of Remould.
Remould (v. t.) To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.
Remold (v.) Cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast" [syn: recast, remold, remould]
Remold (v.) Shape again or shape differently [syn: reshape, remold].
Remold (v.) Give new treads to (a tire) [syn: retread, remold, remould].
Remollient (a.) Mollifying; softening. [R.]
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. as:
Remonstrance (n.) A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. [Obs.]
You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than let him be so lost. -- Shak.
Remonstrance (n.) Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.
Remonstrance (n.) (R.C.Ch.) Same as Monstrance.
Remonstrance (n.) The act of expressing earnest opposition or protest [syn: expostulation, remonstrance, remonstration, objection]
Remonstrance. () A petition to a court, or deliberative or legislative body, in which those who have signed it request that something which it is in contemplation to perform shall not be done.
Remonstrant (a.) Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.
Remonstrant (n.) One who remonstrates; specifically (Eccl. Hist.)
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. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
I will remonstrate to you the third door. -- B. Jonson.
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.
It is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially in principles. --Waterland.
Syn: Expostulate, Remonstrate.
Usage: These words are commonly interchangeable, the principal difference being that expostulate is now used especially to signify remonstrance by a superior or by one in authority. A son remonstrates against the harshness of a father; a father expostulates with his son on his waywardness. Subjects remonstrate with their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the
parliament or the people.
Remonstrate (v.) Argue in protest or opposition.
Remonstrate (v.) Present and urge reasons in opposition [syn: remonstrate, point out].
Remonstrate (v.) Censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast].
Remonstration (n.) The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. [R.] -- Todd.
Remonstration (n.) The act of expressing earnest opposition or protest [syn: expostulation, remonstrance, remonstration, objection].
Remonstrative (a.) Having the character of a remonstrance; expressing remonstrance.
Remonstrator (n.) One who remonstrates; a remonsrant. -- Bp. Burnet.
Remontant (a.) [F.] (Hort.) 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.) [F.] (Horology) See under Escapement.
Remora (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Remora (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.
Note: The anterior dorsal fin is converted into a large sucking disk, having two transverse rows of lamellae, situated on the top of the head. They adhere firmly to sharks and other large fishes and to vessels by this curious sucker, letting go at will. The pegador, or remora of sharks ({Echeneis naucrates), and the swordfish remora ({Remora brachyptera), are common American species.
Remora (n.) (Surg.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places. -- Dunglison.
Remora (n.) Marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects [syn: remora, suckerfish, sucking fish].
Remorate (v. t.) To hinder; to delay. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Remord (v. t.) To excite to remorse; to rebuke. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Remord (v. i.) To feel remorse. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Elyot.
Remordency (n.) Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] -- Killingbeck.
Remorse (n.) 痛悔；自責 [U][（+for/ at/ about）] 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. "Nero will be tainted with remorse." -- Shak.
Remorse (n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.
Curse on the unpardoning prince, whom tears can draw To no remorse. -- Dryden.
But evermore it seem'd an easier thing At once without remorse to strike her dead. -- Tennyson.
Syn: Compunction; regret; anguish; grief; compassion. See Compunction.
Remorse (n.) A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) [syn: compunction, remorse, self-reproach].
Remorsed (a.) Feeling remorse. [Obs.]
Remorseful (a.) 極為後悔的，懊悔的 Full of remorse.
The full tide of remorseful passion had abated. -- Sir W. Scott.
Remorseful (a.) Compassionate; feeling tenderly. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Remorseful (a.) Exciting pity; pitiable. [Obs.] -- Chapman. -- Re*morse"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*morse"ful*ness, n.
Remorseful (a.) Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses [syn: {contrite}, {remorseful}, {rueful}, {ruthful}].
Remorseless (a.) 無悔意的；無惻隱心的；不休止的 Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." -- South. "With remorseless cruelty." -- Milton.
Syn: Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable; merciless; unmerciful; savage; cruel. -- Re*morse"less*ly, adv. -- Re*morse"less*ness, n.
Remorseless (a.) Without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty" [syn: pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying].
Remote (a.) 相隔很遠的，遙遠的；偏僻的 [（+from）]；久遠的 [（+from）]；（在血統，因果等方面）關係疏遠的 [（+from）]；冷淡的，孤高的；絕少的；微乎其微的；遙控的 Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Places remote enough are in Bohemia. -- Shak.
Remote from men, with God he passed his days. -- Parnell.
Remote (a.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
Remote (a.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." -- Locke.
Remote (a.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
Remote (a.) Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all
bodies." -- Locke.
Remote (a.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." -- Granville.
Remote (a.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
Remote (a.) (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.
Remote (a.) Located far away spatially; "distant lands"; "remote stars" [syn: {distant}, {remote}].
Remote (a.) Very unlikely; "an outside chance"; "a remote possibility"; "a remote contingency" [syn: {outside}, {remote}].
Remote (a.) Separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future" [syn: {distant}, {remote}, {removed}].
Remote (a.) Inaccessible and sparsely populated; [syn: {outback(a)}, {remote}].
Remote (a.) Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics" [syn: {distant}, {remote}] [ant: {close}].
Remote (n.) 遙控器A device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance; "he lost the remote for his TV" [syn: {remote control}, {remote}].
Remote. () At a distance; afar off, not immediate. A remote cause is not in general sufficient to charge a man with the commission of a crime, nor with being the author of a tort.
Remote. () When a man suffers an injury in consequence of the violation of a contract, he is in general entitled to damages for the violation of such contract, but not for remote consequences, unconnected with the contract, to which he may be subjected; as, for example, if the maker of a promissory note should not pay it at maturity; the holder will be entitled to damages arising from the breach of the contract, namely, the principal and interest; but should the holder, in consequence of the non-payment of such note, be compelled to stop payment, and lose his credit and his business, the maker will not be responsible for such losses, on account of the great remoteness of the cause; so if an agent who is bound to account should neglect to do so, and a similar failure should take place, the agent would not be responsible for the damages thus caused. 1 Brock. Cir. C. R. 103; see 3 Pet. 69, 84, 89; 5 Mason's R. 161; 3 Wheat. 560; 1 Story, R. 157; 3 Sumn. R. 27, 270; 2 Sm. & Marsh. 340; 7 Hill, 61. Vide Cause.
Remoteness (n.) 遠離，遠隔，細微 The property of being remote [syn: {farness}, {remoteness}, {farawayness}] [ant: {closeness}, {nearness}].
Remoteness (n.) A disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner [syn: {aloofness}, {remoteness}, {standoffishness}, {withdrawnness}].
Remotion (n.) The act of removing; removal. [Obs.]
This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. -- Shak.
Remotion (n.) The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.]
The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. -- De Quincey.
Remotion (n.) The act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" [syn: removal, remotion].
Remold, Remould (v. t.) To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.
Remould (v. t.) See Remold.
Remould (v.) Cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast" [syn: recast, remold, remould].
Remould (v.) Give new treads to (a tire) [syn: retread, remold, remould].
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.
Remount (n.) A fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle.
Remount (v.) Mount again; "he remounted his horse."
Remount (v.) Mount again, as after disassembling something.
Remount (v.) Provide with fresh
horses; "remount a regiment."
Removable (a.) Admitting of being removed. -- Ayliffe. --
Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty, (n.)
Removable (a.) Capable of being removed or taken away or dismissed; "a removable cord"; "removable partitions" [ant: irremovable].
Removable (a.) Able to be obliterated completely [syn: obliterable, removable].
Removal (n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Removal (n.) The act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" [syn: removal, remotion].
Removal (n.) Dismissal from office.
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.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. -- Deut. xix. 14.
When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. -- Goldsmith.
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. "King Richard thus removed." -- Shak.
Remove (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.
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.
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear. -- Shak.
Note: The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.
Remove (n.) The act of removing; a removal.
This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. -- Milton.
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. -- Goldsmith.
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.
It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. -- J. H. Newman.
Remove (n.) The state of being removed. -- Locke.
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.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. -- Addison.
Remove (n.) (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. -- Swift.
Removed (a.) Changed in place.
Removed (a.) Dismissed from office.
Removed (a.) Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." -- Shak.