relinquish'd

As it was an inviolable law for every gallant to keep to his partner, for the night especially, and even till he relinquish'd possession over to the community, in order to preserve a pleasing property and to avoid the disgusts and indelicacy of another arrangement, the company, after

Fanny Hill, Part VII (second letter) 1749

_Zeokinizul_'s Father-in-law for his Kingdom, which he relinquish'd to another, he was allowed to retain the Title of King, and was made actual Sovereign of the Province of _Reinarol_, which after his Death, was by the Treaty to be annexed to the Kingdom of the _Kofirans_, and the _Kam_ in exchange for this Cession, was invested with the Dominions of _Sicidem_.

The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr��billon 1742

Page 47 own Friers who had not relinquish'd his Humanity, tells us of an Indian Prince, who just as the Spaniards were about to murder him, was importuned by one of their Religious to become a Christian; the Priest told him much of Heaven and Hell, of Joy and Misery eternal; the Prince desired to be informed which of the two Places was allotted for the Spaniards?

A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation and Plantations of Great-Britain, Compared with Her Most Powerful Maritime Neighbours in Antient and Modern Times 1732

They were the more easily disposed to it, because in his Præfecture of the Treasury, he relinquish'd the Bar, to pay a more leisurely Attendance to his Office: This Provincial Cause, with that of Bætica, he defended with Cornelius Tacitus, and the Emperor presided in the Hearing of them.

Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723