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To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign. In the case the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right. Blackstone. In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince. Hayward. The prisoner was remitted to the guard. Dryden.

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

A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.

The sum or thing remitted. Addison.

One to whom a remittance is sent.

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.

One who remits. Specifically:

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

One who makes a remittance; a remitter.

See Hermitage.

A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.

Eremitic. Bp. Hall.

The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. Arbuthnot.

Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.

A hermit. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.

Not capable of being remitted; irremissible. Holinshed.

Any species of Pentremites.