† remisen.1
Obsolete.
1. Law. The action of transferring or surrendering property, a right, etc.
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society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > instance of
translationc1460
remise1473
remissiona1475
1473–4 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 2nd Roll §9. m. 18 Provided alwey that this acte..extend not nor be prejudiciall to..Thomas Bourchier..for, of, or in any graunte or grauntes, ratifications, confirmations, remysse or releases..to hym.
1485–6 Act of Resumption in Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1485 m. 4 Annexions, remisses, relesses or pardones, to theym..made or had.
1701 W. Brown Tutor Clericalis Instructus ii. 100 The Appurtenances for which Remise, Release, and quit claim.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. App. iv. §3. p. xv This recognition, remise, quit-claim, warranty, fine, and agreement.
1821 C. Barton Mod. Precedents in Conveyancing II. (ed. 3) 51 And for this recognition, remise, quit claim, warranty, fine, and agreement the said Thomas hath given the said John £ Sterling.
2. Perhaps: recompense, monetary return. rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun]
shipec1000
rightOE
yielda1200
hire?c1225
foryieldinga1300
tithinga1300
rentc1300
lowera1325
guerdon?a1366
recompensationa1382
retributionc1384
reward?1387
reguerdona1393
rewardon?a1400
mercimonyc1400
pensionc1400
remunerationc1400
recompensec1425
wardonc1480
salary1484
premiationa1513
requital1556
repayment1561
requite1561
renumeration1572
remisea1578
lieu1592
reguerdonment1599
gratulation1611
muneration1611
requit1786
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 136 We come now..to thai [= thy] maiestie to gett support, promiss and richt remise [v.r. riche revenues] thairfoir.
3. Medicine. = remission n. 5b. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > remission
remission?a1425
remise1603
quiet disease1886
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 653 I have notwithstanding some remyses or intermissions yet.
4. An amount of money remitted, a remittance; (also) the act of remitting money.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > remittance of money
remittance1638
remise1653
remitment1678
remitting1849
1653 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 180 2847 Antwerp, Feb. 26... Here is arrived the Earl of Suansaldaign, to receive the Remiss from Spain touching the new Levies for the Camp of Valentine.
1667 W. Temple Let. in 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.
1689 Myst. Iniq. 38 In order whereunto great Remises of Mony were already ordered him from the French Court.
1757 H. Laurens Let. 28 Feb. in Papers (1970) II. 472 We inform'd you of our having Ballanc'd the Admirals Account by a remise to Messrs. Lascelles & Maxwell of £404.9.11.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
remisen.2
/rᵻˈmʌɪz/, U.S. /rəˈmaɪz/, /riˈmaɪz/ 1. † b. A hired carriage of a class superior to a hackney carriage. Obsolete.Chiefly in French contexts.
a. A building providing shelter for a carriage; a coach house. Now historical.Chiefly in French contexts.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > cart- or coach house
cart-house1483
wain-house1569
wagon-house1648
coach-house1679
remise1698
chaise-house1812
carriage house1883
cart-lodge1888
1698 W. King Journey to London 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.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 73 Mons. Dessein came up with the key of the Remise in his hand, and forthwith let us into his magazine of chaises.
1841 Countess of Blessington Idler in France II. 135 In former days sledges were considered as indispensable in the winter remise of a grand seigneur in France.
1859 F. M. Thomson Memoranda of Journey to Moscow in1856 xvii. 138 The carriage had been safely stowed away in the remise of the hotel.
1893 Cent. Mag. May 45/1 The Ponette..brought us almost at a trot into the remise of the Hôtel du Cheval Blanc.
a1961 E. Hemingway Garden of Eden (1987) iii. xv. 130 I'm alone today... Do you know if my bicyclette is still in the remise?
2003 E. Schulz Childhood in East Prussia 34 In the Remise were the coach-wagon and the winter-sleigh.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hired carriage
remise1698
job coach1748
voiturin1768
slap-bang coach1797
fly1818
fly-by-night1818
fly-coach1818
job1819
fly-wagon1826
horse-fly1826
1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris 142 Many of the Fiacres or Hackneys, and all the Remises, have one large Glass before.
1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 45 Without the Expence of a Remise, you may visit Boileau.
1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 200 We got into our remise—that special French carriage which never breaks down, drawn by horses that never tire.
1886 W. D. Howells Indian Summer vi. 72 Her carriage was one of the few private equipages;..most people had not even come in a remise, but..had taken the little cabs.
1894 Harper's Mag. Apr. 732/1 He saw them down to their ‘remise’, in which sat a singularly pretty young lady of seventeen or so.
2. A planted shelter for partridges and other game birds.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > shelter for partridges
remise1871
1871 Baily's Monthly Mag. Dec. 97 I had no difficulty in securing his good services and getting him to show me the remise of every covey sprung on the adjoining hills. That is the name given to the cover..into which the game, when disturbed on feed, immediately flies for concealment.
1905 Kynoch Jrnl. Jan.–Mar. 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.
1939 Country 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.
1999 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 5 Dec. b11 Hunters take numbered positions around this remise and then pheasants are released in all directions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† remisen.3
Cards. Obsolete.
1. In quadrille and similar card games: the action or an act of taking too few tricks (generally between four and six) and losing the game. Cf. codille n.If the game is lost by remise, then the stake is doubled by the loser and returned to the pot, to be supplemented by the new stake.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > ombre and quadrille > [noun] > score
codille1714
remise1719
1719 T. Killigrew Chit-chat iv. i. 47 Sir, you've lost Codille—had you given me that Trick, 'twou'd have been remise against the Cards.
1779 Hoyle's Games Impr. 114 [Quadrille] Consolation, is a Claim, which is always paid by those who lose to those who win; whether by Codill or Remise.
1830 R. Hardie 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.
1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 229 Should they make only six tricks, it is a remise, and they are basted.
2. In reversis: a stake in the pool.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > ombre and quadrille > [noun] > stake
remise1830
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > reversi > stake
remise1830
1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 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.
1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 309 One of the players making the reversis..would then prevent your having the remises out of the pool.
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remisen.4
/rᵻˈmʌɪz/, U.S. /rəˈmaɪz/, /riˈmaɪz/ Fencing.
A renewed attack made while still on the lunge, without returning to guard; the action of making such an attack. Cf. reprise n. 7d.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions
buttc1330
overheadc1400
stopc1450
quarter-strokea1456
rabbeta1500
rakea1500
traverse1547
flourish1552
quarter-blow1555
veny1578
alarm1579
venue1591
cut1593
time1594
caricado1595
fincture1595
imbroccata1595
mandritta1595
punta riversa1595
remove1595
stramazon1595
traversa1595
imbrocado1597
passado1597
counter-time1598
foinery1598
canvasado1601
montant1601
punto1601
stock1602
embrocadoc1604
pass1604
stuck1604
stramazo1606
home thrust1622
longee1625
falsify?1635
false1637
traversion1637
canvassa1641
parade1652
flanconade1664
parry1673
fore-stroke1674
allonge1675
contretemps1684
counter1684
disengaging1684
feint1684
passing1687
under-counter1687
stringere1688
stringering1688
tempo1688
volte1688
overlapping1692
repost1692
volt-coupe1692
volting1692
disarm?1700
stamp1705
passade1706
riposte1707
swoop1711
retreat1734
lunge1748
beat1753
disengage1771
disengagement1771
opposition1771
time thrust1771
timing1771
whip1771
shifting1793
one-two1809
one-two-three1809
salute1809
estramazone1820
remise1823
engage1833
engaging1833
risposta1838
lunging1847
moulinet1861
reprise1861
stop-thrust1861
engagement1881
coupé1889
scrape1889
time attack1889
traverse1892
cut-over1897
tac-au-tac riposte1907
flèche1928
replacement1933
punta dritta1961
1823 G. Roland Treat. Art Fencing iv. 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.
1861 G. Chapman Rev. 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.
1910 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 Mar. 14/4 His fencing, especially his handling of the foils in riposte and in remise, was very clever.
1989 Associated Press (Nexis) 13 July His last touch came on an attack that missed and he replaced the blade on Cuomo's jacket in a move called a remise.
2002 R. Cohen By Sword Prol. p. xvi Had I parried sufficiently, or would the judges rule that David's counter had gone straight through? I knew I'd been hit, but that could have been the ‘remise’—David hitting me only after my parry?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
remisev.1
/rᵻˈmʌɪz/, U.S. /rəˈmaɪz/, /riˈmaɪz/ 1. transitive. Law. To give up, surrender, transfer, or release (a right, property, etc.). Also: to release (a person) from an obligation, etc. Frequently in legal formulas.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > renounce
to claim quitc1314
to quit claimc1314
remisea1325
release1379
remit1379
renouncec1400
to put apart1455
discharge1466
to swear out1598
to quit claim to1664
remiss1701
cut1791
renunciate1848
society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > take away a right [verb (transitive)] > renounce or surrender rights or claims
remisea1325
surrender1473
acquit1481
waivea1631
remiss1701
a1325 Statutes of Realm in MS Rawl. B.520 f. 59 v Assise tournez in to Juree..Ȝif þe auncessour knoulechede one remisede or quite claimede.
1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §8. m. 4 Ye remysed and relessed..all the residue of the seid fee ferme.
1491 Act 7 Henry VII c. 18 in Statutes of Realm (1816) II. 562 Your seid suppliant..them remised and quite claymed..unto the seid late pretended Kyng.
1612 in R. O'Flaherty Chorogr. Descr. W. Connaught (1846) 258 Wee..have remised, released, and..quitt claimed..all that our right,..interest, [etc.].
1696 S. Carter Lex Custumaria 351 Either of them doth grant, yield up, surrender, remise, release and for ever quit claim unto the said E. F. and unto F. C. of, &c...their said several and respective Copy-hold Estates.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xx. 324 The words generally used therein are ‘remised, released, and for ever quit-claimed’.
1804 J. B. Bosanquet & C. Puller Rep. Cases Courts of Common Pleas III. 577 By that deed the two persons..did remise, release, and quit-claim to him, all actions, suits, claims, and demands whatsoever.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 375/2 The operative words of release are remise, release, renounce, and for ever quit claim.
1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Nov. 531/2 Samuel Saunders..remised, released, and forever discharged the said Elizabeth Littleton..from the judgment aforesaid.
1915 Univ. Pa. Law Rev. & Amer. Law Reg. 63 795 I..do hereby etc., remise, release and forever discharge to the said Fred T. Ley & Co., of and from all debts.
1998 Chicago Daily Law Bull. (Nexis) 20 Aug. 1 The settlement agreement also contained a mutual release clause that stated each party relinquishes, waives, remises and releases all rights and claims against the other party.
2004 P. Alberstat Insider's Guide to Film Finance i. 16 The Producer wishes to remise, release and quit claim any and all of its rights acquired from Y under the Agreements.
a. transitive. To put back in (also into) a former place, state, etc.; to return to, replace; (also) to convert again into. Obsolete.Frequently in Caxton.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > again or in previous position
restorec1425
repone?1440
repose?1440
remise1481
replace1587
recollocate1598
reimplace1611
to put backa1625
refit1649
retroduce1659
relodge1660
reposit1800
reship1804
reshift1822
reset1829
1481 W. Caxton in tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) Prol. 1 Tadresse and remyse theym in theyr auncyent Fraunchyses and lyberte.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. i.vv/2 Florypes remysed the relyques in the coffret.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 207 I remyse hym in your pocession.
1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 76 They saw the king and the quene remised and set in good love and unite of hert togither.
1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 82 To five of them he remised the chaynes about theyr neckes.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 36 Yet thinke not, that this Too-too-much, remises Ought into nought: it but the Forme disguises.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 1 His Mother made intercession for him, set him at libertie, and remised him to his gouernment.
b. transitive. To bring together again; to lead back again. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > cause to move back [verb (transitive)] > lead or bring back
reversec1350
remisec1500
rebring1595
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > assemble (people or animals) > again
remisec1500
reconvent1589
c1500 Melusine (1895) 137 He full wel remysed hys folke into the toune.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 136 The king..remysed hys folke togidre, and made to withdraw them al the lytil pas.
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society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)]
remise1633
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. viii. 62 Remising therefore onely this Answer, that he despised their Forces.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. vi. 164 All which may appeare by a Letter remised from the said Iames unto him.
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remisev.2
/rᵻˈmʌɪz/, U.S. /rəˈmaɪz/, /riˈmaɪz/ Fencing.
intransitive. To make a remise.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fence [verb (intransitive)] > actions
traversea1470
to hold one's handa1500
flourish1552
lock1579
to come in1594
retire1594
pass1595
recover1600
redouble1640
allonge1652
caveat1652
parry1671
disengage1684
overlap1692
volt1692
tierce1765
whip1771
wrench1771
lunge1809
salute1809
riposte1823
cut1833
quart1833
repost1848
remise1889
1889 W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 96 It is wrong to remise on a riposte made by a disengagement in the low line.
1943 A. Nadi On Fencing 209 When the opponent's parry is ‘insufficient’ you should remise instantly in the same line of attack.
1988 B. Pitman Fencing 93 You can remise by leaving your arm in line as you recover and block out his riposte.
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