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Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.

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.

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

n candle, a kind of firework (generally held in the hand), characterized by the continued emission of shower of sparks, and the ejection, at intervals, of brilliant balls or stars of fire which are thrown upward as they become ignited. -- Roman Catholic, of, pertaining to, or the religion of that church of which the p…

Emission or reflection of light.

The emission of sperm, or semen.

Abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.

To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. [Obs.] W. Cartright.

The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. Boyle.

yes, ears, nostrils, etc., of a person when in danger of death from illness, -- done for remission of sins. [James v. 14, 15.]

Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance. Without the vent of words. Milton. Thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel. Shak. To give vent to, to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth; as, to give vent to anger. -- To take vent, to escape; to be made public. [R.] -- Vent feath…

A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words. "This volley of oaths." B. Jonson. Rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks. Pope.