Definitions for the word "remit" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To restore.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To send money, as in payment.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v.
(-tt-) 1 cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting (a debt, punishment, etc.). 2 abate or slacken; cease partly or entirely. 3 send (money etc.) In payment. 4 a (foll. By to) refer (a matter for decision etc.) To some authority. B send back (a case) to a lower court. 5 postpone or defer. 6 pardon (sins etc.). n. 1 terms of reference of a committee etc. 2 item remitted for consideration. [latin remitto -miss-]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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