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: (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. ``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.
Remit \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.
But its remit has been drawn to encompass what has emerged as the central issue in the industry - ownership. Revelations of mismanagement or misuse of surpluses have outraged pension scheme members, sometimes with reason, sometimes not.
But private investors who may be comparing the relative merits of investment and unit trusts with the same investment remit do need to be aware of this crucial difference.
'B&C appears to have been looking to BZW for advice of a kind that BZW believed was not within their remit.'
But when it earlier froze the Chargit funds, the savings bank claimed that Chargit had been failing to remit funds to customers on a timely basis.
Legislation to protect auditors in non-regulated industries if they alert the authorities of fraud would also be welcome. Outside the remit of the accountancy profession, there are also some excellent recommendations.
Mr Pollock's salary was cut by 38 per cent to Pounds 149,000. Mr Sallitt became chairman in March with the remit to turn the company round by strengthening its non-military businesses.
Brussels sensibly invoked subsidiarity and refused. Maastricht compounds the democratic shortcomings of the Council by placing the new foreign and internal security policies outside the EC remit.
Suppose then that Kenneth Clarke succumbs to siren pressures from colleagues to remit some taxes in his next Budget.
Mr Robinson's remit will include private banking and retail banking in Africa and the Caribbean. The reforms, which Mr Taylor described as a first step, created groups covering big companies and European retail banking.
Indeed, her remit seems likely to extend to most aspects of domestic policy.
The reason for those is that BR's freight operations are unsubsidised, and BR is under a long-standing government remit to turn them into profit.
Anyone can place orders freely with a broker abroad and remit the payment to his account overseas.
Mrs. Thatcher has created an important think tank, the Center for Policy Studies, but until recently it had no remit to discuss defense policy at all.
It decided that ICI Europe had, in effect, fulfilled much of its remit.
Yet the review does highlight questions, beyond Ofwat's remit, which must be tackled if the burden is to be distributed more fairly.
Since the proposed statement does not form part of the accounts, it does not strictly fall within the remit of the auditors.
His remit is to help develop new business and joint venture opportunities, including collaboration with foreign companies. GEC chose to restrict its public announcement of the management change to the trade press.
It said some changes to management grades which the union was objecting to fell outside the union's remit.
'We cannot remit these funds, so we shall be using them to expand.