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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
dismiss .
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Examples
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Noe, it wuz dismist win da reel ownur uv da pot fesst up.
One of us answers with the truth - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I licked him and bare him no mallis: but of corse I dismist the imperent scoundrill from my suvvis, apinting Adolphus, my page, to his post of confidenshle
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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I licked him and bare him no mallis: but of corse I dismist the imperent scoundrill from my suvvis, apinting Adolphus, my page, to his post of confidenshle
Burlesques 2006
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He presently summoned that poor fellow before him, and after many bitter remonstrances, paid him his wages, and dismist him from his service; for Mr. Allworthy rightly observed, that there was a great difference between being guilty of a falsehood to excuse yourself, and to excuse another.
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At every pier sail boats were moored, coming from all over the world, and as they dismist their crews on arrival it left the men on shore unoccupied until their meager wages were gone, when they were crimped for another voyage.
The Kirk on Rutgers Farm Frederick Br��ckbauer
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The tavernes are painted against the tearme, and many a cause is argu'd there and try'd at that barre, where you are adjudg'd to pay the costs and charges, and so dismist with
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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This done, I dismist them and writ a few lines to my Lord Hervey, and so to sleep.
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Edinburgh on 21st of June, who thereupon ordered a detachment of foot to march forthwith thither, where they arrived on the 24th at night, but the guard room being unprepared, they put off taking possession of it till next day, the soldiers being dismist to their several private quarters.
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson
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I received it sedately, and dismist him with the compunction so worthy a gentleman merited.
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Indeed, there was an air of melancholy about her which moved me prodigiously, and seeing Pratt flouncing and bustling in such a manner as denoted her curiosity and jealousy, I dismist her to the house.
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