Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Retired from the public service after serving a full term.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honourably
discharged .
Etymologies
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See emeritus.
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Examples
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And then he had to do with emerited conspirators, consummate in the art of concealing themselves and of leaving no trace of their whereabouts -- with the active and indefatigable
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861
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