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ness; fervency. Jer. Taylor. Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind. Bacon.

en the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.

Not capable of being remitted; irremissible. Holinshed.

Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at the proper time; delay to assert a claim. It ill became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney. Macaulay.

Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] "Of penance had a lisse." Chaucer.

Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.

act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution. Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings. Shak. But infinite in pardon was my judge. Milton. Used in expressing courteous denial or contradiction; as, I crave your pardon; or in indicating th…

The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions. Arbuthnot.

The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.

Full; complete. [Obs.] "Plein remission." Chaucer. -- Plein"ly, adv.

a subject should be plenary or full. I. Watts. Plenary indulgence (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all sins. -- Plenary inspiration. (Theol.) See under Inspiration.

Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks. Macaulay.

Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission. Dunglison.

s also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochæte) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.…

Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement. "Hours of careless relaxation." Macaulay.

The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission. Disavowing the remitment of Claudius. Milton.

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.

A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages.

lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.