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remise

[ ri-mahyz ]

verb (used with object)

Law.
remised, remising.
  1. to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.


remise

/ °ùɪˈ³¾²¹Éª³ú /

verb

  1. tr law to give up or relinquish (a right, claim, etc); surrender
  2. fencing to make a renewed thrust on the same lunge after the first has missed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. fencing a second thrust made on the same lunge after the first has missed
  2. obsolete.
    a hired carriage
  3. obsolete.
    a coach house
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of remise1

1475–85; < Middle French, feminine past participle of remettre to put back, deliver < Latin remittere to remit
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of remise1

C17: from French remettre to put back, from Latin remittere to send back, from re- + mittere to send
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Jon Levy—who I would be remise if I didn’t mention once worked as an informercial “Before and After†model—hosted his first dinner party almost four years ago.

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"Ah, it was a vile remise," eagerly answered a dozen voices.

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The piece, therefore, was remise,—and so was the harangue of the academician who was to have followed M. Mignet.

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We at once engaged the latter functionary, ordered the remise of the hotel to wait for us, and started upon two days of eager but weary sight-seeing.

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But under the protection of the fencing mask a new school of foil-play was evolved, one in which swiftness and inveteracy of attack and parry, of riposte, remise, counter-riposte and reprise, assumed an all-important character.

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