remit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To transmit (money) in payment.
2. v. To refrain from exacting (a tax or penalty, for example); cancel.
3. v. To pardon; forgive: remitted their sins.
4. v. To restore to a former condition or position.
5. v. Law To refer (a case) to another court for further consideration or action.
6. v. Law To refer (a matter) to a committee or authority for decision.
7. v. To allow to slacken: The storm remitted its fury.
8. v. To desist from; give up.
9. v. To put off; postpone.
10. v. To transmit money.
11. v. To diminish; abate.
12. n. The act of remitting, especially the referral of a case to another court.
13. n. A matter remitted for further consideration.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To send back.
2. To transmit or send, as money, bills, or other things in payment for goods received.
3. To restore; replace.
4. To transfer.
5. In law, to transfer (a cause) from one tribunal or judge to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction. See remit, n.
6. To refer.
7. To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
8. To slacken; relax the tension of; hence, figuratively, to diminish in intensity; make less intense or violent; abate.
9. To refrain from exacting; give up, in whole or in part: as, to remit punishment.
10. To pardon; forgive.
11. To omit; cease doing.
12. Synonyms To forward.
13. To release, relinquish.
14. To slacken; become less intense or rigorous.
15. To abate by growing less earnest, eager, or active.
16. In medicine, to abate in violence for a time without intermission: as, a fever remits at a certain hour every day.
17. In com., to transmit money, etc.
18. n. In Scots law, a remission; a sending back. In judicial procedure, applied to an interlocutor or Judgment transferring a cause either totally or partially, or for some specific purpose, from one tribunal or Judge to another, or to a judicial nominee, for the execution of the purposes of the remit.
19. n. A formal communication from a body having higher jurisdiction, to one subordinate to it.

Wiktionary

1. v. To forgive, pardon
2. v. To give up, stop succumbing to (a negative emotion etc.).
3. v. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
4. v. To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
5. v. To diminish, abate.
6. v. To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
7. v. To postpone.
8. v. To transmit or send, as money in payment.
9. n. terms of reference; set of responsibilities.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
2. v. To restore.
3. v. To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc..
4. v. 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. To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
6. v. To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
7. v. To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
8. v. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax
9. v. To send money, as in payment.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
2. n. (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
3. v. release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
4. v. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
5. v. hold back to a later time
6. v. send (money) in payment
7. v. forgive.
8. v. diminish or abate
9. n. the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with