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▪ I. † reˈmise, n.1 Obs.
Also 5 remysse, 7 remyse.
[a. F. (in early use prob. AF.) remise, vbl. n. f. remettre to remit: cf. late L. remissa remission (of sins).]
1. Law. A transfer of property.
1473Rolls of Parlt. VI. 75/1 Any Graunte or Grauntes, Ratifications, Confirmations, Remysse or Releases to hym..made. 1485Ibid. 342/2 Annexions, Remises, Releases or Pardones, to theym..made or had. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. App. iv. §3. p. xv, This recognition, remise, quit-claim, warranty, fine, and agreement.
2. A remission or cessation of sickness. rare—1.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. 653, I have notwithstanding some remyses or intermissions yet.
3. ? Return, recompense.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 136 We come now..to thai [= thy] maiestie to gett support, promiss and richt remise [v.r. riche revenues] thairfoir.
4. The act of remitting money; a remittance.
1667Temple Let. Wks. 1731 II. 39 They have remitted by this Ordinary to his Excellency a hundred and thirty thousand Crowns, which is the third Remise of about that Sum. 1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 16 Its necessary that the Remise be confirmed by the following Post. 1689Myst. Iniq. 38 In order whereunto great Remises of Mony were already ordered him from the French Court.
▪ II. ‖ remise, n.2|rəmiz|
[F.; see prec.]
1. a. A house or shelter for a carriage; a coach-house.
1698W. King tr. Sorbière's Journ. Lond. 4 Divers of the Citizens Houses, have Port-cochezs to drive in a Coach, or a Cart either, and Consequently have Courts within, and mostly Remises to set them up. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. I. 62 The Remise Door. Ibid. 73 (The Remise), Mons. Dessein came up with the key of the Remise in his hand, and forthwith let us into his magazine of chaises. 1841C'tess Blessington Idler in France II. 135 In former days sledges were considered as indispensable in the winter remise of a grand seigneur in France.
b. (Ellipt. for voiture de remise.) A carriage hired from a livery-stable, of a better class than the ordinary hackney-carriage.
1698M. Lister Journ. Paris (1699) 142 Many of the Fiacres or Hackneys, and all the Remises, have one large Glass before. 1753A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 45 Without the Expence of a Remise, you may visit Boileau. 1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 200 We got into our remise—that special French carriage which never breaks down, drawn by horses that never tire.
2. Fencing. A second thrust made after the first has missed and while still upon the lunge; the act of making a thrust of this kind.
1823Roland Art Fencing 86 The Remise is made upon your adversary's quitting your blade to make a feint as a return too soon after having parried your attack. 1861Chapman Review Art Fencing i. 20 The remise is provoked by opportunities afforded in the adversary's play, and in that respect differs essentially from the Reprise, a redoubling of the Attack.
3. In some card-games, as quadrille and reversis:
a. (See quot. 1830.)
b. A stake in the pool.
1830‘Eidrah Trebor’ Hoyle made familiar 36 Remise is when they who stand the game do not make more tricks than they who defend the pool, and then they lose by remise. Ibid. 40 Should..there be three remises, or stakes, in the pools, then it is at the option of any player to take a card or not. 1850Hand-bk. Games (Bohn) 309 One of the players making the reversis..would then prevent your having the remises out of the pool.
4. A specially planted shelter for partridges. Also attrib.
1905Kynoch Jrnl. Jan.–Mar. 45 An instance where this ‘remise’ system has been carried out most successfully and on a large scale. Ibid. 46 When the natural food is exhausted, in hard weather a few handfuls of small corn..are scattered about inside the ‘remise’, which gives employment to many coveys who are hard pressed for food, and they also serve as a sort of headquarters to which all partridges in the neighbourhood can retire if disturbed. 1939Country Life 11 Feb. p. xxii/2 It is this danger which is also one of the dangers of laying out a partridge remise as part of a plantation scheme.
▪ III. † remise, a. Obs.—1
[a. F. remis(e, pa. pple. of remettre: see next.]
Delayed, postponed.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) B v, In sentence remise is lesser iniury, Then in headling sentence pronounced hastely.
▪ IV. remise, v.1|rɪˈmaɪz|
Also 5–6 remyse.
[f. F. remis(e, pa. pple. of remettre:—L. remittĕre to remit. Cf. remiss v.]
†1. trans. To put back again in or into a place, state, etc.; to replace; to convert again into; to send back to a place. Obs. (freq. in Caxton).
1481Caxton Godfrey Prol. 1 Tadresse and remyse theym in theyr auncyent Fraunchyses and lyberte. 1485― Chas. Gt. 181 Florypes remysed the relyques in the coffret. c1500Melusine xxvi. 207, I remyse hym in your pocession. 1512Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 76 They saw the king and the quene remised and set in good love and unite of hert togither. Ibid. 82 To five of them he remised the chaynes about theyr neckes. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 164 Yet think not that this Too-too-much remises Ought into noughts; it but the Form disguises. 1623Bingham Xenophon 1 His Mother made intercession for him, set him at libertie, and remised him to his gouernment.
†b. To bring together again; to lead back again. Obs. rare.
c1500Melusine 134 The king..remysed hys folke togidre, and made to withdraw them al the lytil pas. Ibid. 137 He full wel remysed hys folke into the tounne.
2. Law. To give up, surrender, make over to another, release (any right, property, etc.).
1487Rolls of Parlt. VI. 390 Ye remysed and relessed..all the residue of the said Fee Ferme. 1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 18 Your seid suppliant..them remised and quite claymed..unto the seid late pretended Kyng. 1612in O'Flaherty's West Connaught (1846) 258 Wee..have remised, released, and..quitt claimed..all that our right.., interest, [etc.]. 1655Fuller Waltham Abb. 10 Peter Duke of Savoy remised and quit-claimed from him and his Heirs..the right and claim he had. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xx. 324 The words generally used therein are ‘remised, released, and for ever quit-claimed’. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 375/2 The operative words of release are remise, release, renounce, and for ever quit claim.
†3. To remit or send (a letter or reply). Obs.
1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. viii. 62 Remising therefore onely this Answer, that he despised their Forces. Ibid. ii. vi. 164 All which may appeare by a Letter remised from the said Iames unto him.
▪ V. reˈmise, v.2 Fencing.
[f. remise n.2 2.]
intr. To make a remise.
1889Fencing (Badminton Libr.) 96 It is wrong to remise on a riposte made by a disengagement in the low line. |