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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pretermit.

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Examples

  • Questions about whether a recall would or would not be constitutional were pretermitted, in that such questions need not be addressed unless and until a petition complying with the statutory scheme is filed.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional 2010

  • Dumpor's Case had something to do with pretermitted heirs, or estates in tail, or accretion of tidal lands.

    Biz One-Upmanship 101 Con Chapman 2011

  • Questions about whether a recall would or would not be constitutional were pretermitted, in that such questions need not be addressed unless and until a petition complying with the statutory scheme is filed.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional 2010

  • AppleInsider: “Apple Computer has been granted a patent for a pretermitted feature of Mac OS X that would have allowed users to sync their home directories to an iPod and then use the data stored on the player to securely log into any supported Mac.”

    Scripting News for 10/12/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

  • For seeing there is no Commonwealth in the world wherein there be rules enough set down for the regulating of all the actions and words of men (as being a thing impossible): it followeth necessarily that in all kinds of actions, by the laws pretermitted, men have the liberty of doing what their own reasons shall suggest for the most profitable to themselves.

    Leviathan 2007

  • The liberty of a subject lieth therefore only in those things which, in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath pretermitted: such as is the liberty to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own abode, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; and the like.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided, — a care pretermitted in no single case.

    Nature 2006

  • It is true that the over-population was at least as dense in the epoch of lords and ladies, and that now-a-days some customs which made Edinburgh notorious of yore have been fortunately pretermitted.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

  • It might and it might not, thus a Greek chorus would have intervened, and gone on to point out how very far it fell short of telling why the sergeant was tramping a country lane in tatters; or even to argue that he must have pretermitted some while ago his labours for the general defence, and (in the interval) possibly turned his attention to oakum.

    The Wrong Box 2004

  • I search my diary in vain to find some pretermitted adventure wherewith to give you a thrill, or, as good Mrs.B. calls it,

    A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

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