remise

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: re=mise

CIDE DICTIONARY

remise, v. t. [F. remise delivery, surrender, fr. remettre to put back, deliver, L. remittere. See Remit.].

 To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

remise, n. 

 A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim.  [1913 Webster]

remise, n. 

•  A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.  Sterne.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; -- so called because kept in a remise.  Cooper.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

remise, v. & n.
--v.intr.
1 Law surrender or make over (a right or property).
2 Fencing make a remise.
--n. Fencing a second thrust made after the first has failed.

Etymology

F f. remis, remise past part. of remettre put back: cf. REMIT

ROGET THESAURUS

remise

Exemption

VB not have, be without, excuse, be exempt, exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit, free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license, stretch a point, absolve, exonerate, save the necessity.