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The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.

an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton.

The act of letting go in; admission.

Refusal of pardon.

act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage. "Given to slaves at their manumission." Arbuthnot.

Failure to be admitted.

Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer (Mil.), a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.

Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.

equired by propriety or duty. The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission. Addison.

-- Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon, and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back. The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has, in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness; but in the language of common life there is a difference between them, such as we often find between corres…

ng or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden.

Lit., previous admission; specif. (Engin.),

The act of passing by or omitting; omission. Milton.

The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.

To commission again; to give a new commission to. Officers whose time of service had expired were to be recommissioned. Marshall.

nalty, debt, etc. This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matt. xxvi. 28. That ples, therefore, . . . Will gain thee no remission. Milton.

f the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance. Submission, dauphin! 't is a mere French word; We English warrious wot not what it means. Shak.

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

A dynamometer in which power is measured, without being absorbed or used up, during transmission.