pretermit

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Then was Butler doomed to hear the most detailed and annotated edition of what he had so often heard before,--David Deans's confinement, namely, in the iron cage in the Canongate Tolbooth, and the cause thereof We should be very unjust to our friend David Deans, if we should "pretermit"--to use his own expression--a narrative which he held essential to his fame.

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  1. transitive verb To disregard intentionally or allow to pass unnoticed or unmentioned.
  2. transitive verb To fail to do or include; omit.
  3. transitive verb To interrupt or terminate.

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  • CEDIA Education Chair - Steven Hill said "the opportunity to listen and pick the brains of pretermit acoustician is an incredible and rare experience". —  HomeToys News
  • In many diseases, that which is but an accident, but a symptom of the main disease, is so violent, that the physician must attend the cure of that, though he pretermit (so far as to intermit) the cure of the disease itself. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
  • After this I made many other voyages, which I nowe pretermit, and waxing olde, I giue myselfe to rest from such trauels, because there are nowe many yong and lustie Pilots and Mariners of good experience, by whose forwardnesse I doe reioyce in the fruit of my labours, and rest with the charge of this office, as you see. —  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
  • Neither shall I pretermit or postpone your honour's commands, but speedily obey them, and that without delay Go to, fellow; thou knowest what I would have," said Everard; "speak at once; I know thou canst if thou wilt. —  Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
  • Then was Butler doomed to hear the most detailed and annotated edition of what he had so often heard before,--David Deans's confinement, namely, in the iron cage in the Canongate Tolbooth, and the cause thereof We should be very unjust to our friend David Deans, if we should "pretermit"--to use his own expression--a narrative which he held essential to his fame. —  The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
 

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  1. Latin praetermittere : praeter, beyond; see preterit + mittere, to let go.

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  1. from Old French pretermetre, pretermettre = Spanish pretermitir = Portuguese pretermittir = Italian pretermettere, from Latin prætermittere. past participle prætermissus, pass by, let pass, neglect, from præter, before, beyond, + mittere, send, let go: see mission.
 

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