Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Leave to depart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Leave to depart; a dismissing.
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- noun obsolete
permission todepart ; adismissing
Etymologies
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Latin dimissio. See dimit, and compare dismission.
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Examples
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It is said, that Mr. Maccarty afterward asked leave to withdraw his request for a dismission, which was refused; and his dimission was voted.
Collections Massachusetts Historical Society cn 1792
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"to take from Mr.B. the parsonage and let it to the best advantage," — "to request him to ask a dimission,"
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