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A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.

A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.

A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.

Neglect or omission to use an easement or franchise or to assert a right. Kent.

A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. To make an out (Print.), to omit something, in setting or correcting type, which was in the copy.

An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker.

A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis…

both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only. Norris.

The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion. Bouvier.

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

To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so. Let us hope . . . we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature. Walsh.

s to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes. [U.S.] A few stood neutral, or declared in favor of the Regulators. Bancroft.

s a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.

l, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. John viii. 34. Sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John iii. 4. I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. Shak. Enthralled By sin t…

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

and; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.

Omission; as, the suppression of a word.

or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage. I wolde it do withouten negligence. Chaucer. Wise men will do it without a law. Bacon. Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our de…