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of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phoenician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). Encyc. Brit.…

A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin. [Written also Shemitism.]

Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.

Lit., half-tontine; -- used to designate a form of tontine life insurance. See Tontine insurance. --Sem`i*ton*tine", n.

The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.

Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

A descendant of Shem.

Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.

See Semitism.

The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic.

Supremacy. [Obs.] Fuller.

Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. Cowper. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ness, n.

A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese.

to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt. In his name I absolve your perjury. Gibbon.

y which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.