dismission

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Such an unforeseen dismission, and so fully pronounced, left me not a moment to hesitate.

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  1. The act of sending away; leave or command to depart; dismissal: as, the dismission of the grand jury. Yon must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Cæsar. Shak., A. and C., i. 1. So pois'd, so gently she descends from high, It seems a soft dismission from the sky. Dryden, Hind and Panther, l. 346. As any of y rest came over them, or of y other returned upon occasion, they should be reputed as members without any further dismission or testimoniall. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 42.
  2. Removal from office or employment; discharge; in universities, the sending away of a student without all the penalties attending expulsion. Thus, the dismissed student may take a degree at another university, and in some cases even reënter the same university.
  3. In law, a decision that a suit is not or cannot be maintained; rejection as unworthy of being noticed or granted.

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  • In 1710, when the government fell into other hands, he writ to Lord Godolphin, on his dismission, a short poem, which was criticised in the Examiner, and so successfully either defended or excused by Mr. Addison that, for the sake of the vindication, it ought to be preserved At the accession of the present family his merits were acknowledged and rewarded. —  Lives of the Poets
  • The Queen several times refused to grant him his dismission, and signified to him that if he would continue in her service in quality of Counsellor of State, and bring his family into Sweden, he should have no reason to repent it: but he excused himself on account of his own health, which was much altered, and of his wife's health, who could not bear the cold air of that kingdom. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
  • At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 11th July the Count de la Luzerne was sent to notify Mr. Neckar of his dismission, and to enjoin him to retire instantly without saying a word of it to anybody. —  Autobiography - Thomas Jefferson
  • I told him I would not think of this while the dismission was over my head. —  Life of Father Hecker
  • This is perhaps the best of all, all things considered Such a movement has from the beginning seemed to me the one to which Divine Providence calls us, but I always felt timid as long as any door was left open for us to act in the Congregation I feel prepared to take this step with you without hesitation and with great confidence I should have been glad, as soon as my dismission was given, to have started on in such a movement. —  Life of Father Hecker
 

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  1. from dismiss + -ion, after dimission, demission, from Latin dimissio(n-), from dimittere, dismiss: see demission, dimission.
 

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