Remit
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
(2): ( v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
(3): ( v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
(4): ( v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
(5): ( v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
(6): ( v. t.) To restore.
(7): ( v. i.) To send money, as in payment.
(8): ( v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
(9): ( v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
King James Dictionary [2]
Remit', L. remitto, to send back re and mitto, to send.
1. To relax, as intensity to make less tense or violent.
So willingly doth God remit his ire.
2. To forgive to surrender the right of punishing a crime as, to remit punishment. 3. To pardon, as a fault or crime.
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them.
John 20 .
4. To give up to resign.
In grievous and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.
5. To refer as a clause that remitted all to the bishop's discretion. 6. To send back.
The pris'ner was remitted to the guard.
7. To transmit money, bills or other thing in payment for goods received. American merchants remit money, bills of exchange or some species of stock, in payment for British goods. 8. To restore.
In this case, the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right.
1. To slacken to become less intense or rigorous.
When our passions remit, the vehemence of our speech remits too.
So we say, cold or heat remits.
2. To abate in violence for a time, without intermission as, a fever remits at a certain hour every day.
