Category:Remission

Re*mis"sion (r-msh"n), n. Etym: [f. rémission, l. remissio. See Remit.]

1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

2. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, Right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from Forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc. This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the Remission of sins. Matt. xxvi. 28. That ples, therefore,. . . Will gain thee no remission. Milton.

3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

4. (med.)

Defn: a temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence Of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which The disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.

5. The act of sending back. [r.] Stackhouse.

6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

See also Category:Pardon