remissadj.

Brit.

/rᵻˈmɪs/, U.S.

/rəˈmɪs/,

/riˈmɪs/

Forms:

α. late Middle English–1500s remys, late Middle English–1500s remysse, late Middle English–1600s remisse, late Middle English– remiss, 1500s remisshe, 1500s–1700s remis, 1600s remish.

β. 1500s remise, 1500s remyse; Scottish pre-1700 remise.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French remis; Latin remissus, remittere.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French remis, remisse melted (of wax, etc.) (first half of the 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), diminished, weakened, exhausted (c1240), weak, negligent, lazy (c1310), delayed, postponed (a1405), calm, serene (1496), (of a vowel) weak, soft, low (1521) and its etymon classical Latin remissus not drawn tight, slack, drooping, sagging, loosely arranged, (of activity or sound) free from passion or vehemence, gentle, relaxed, mild, (of people) free from constraint or solemnity, light-hearted, easy-going, slack, casual, lenient, forbearing, (of conditions) moderate, (of remedies) not potent, (of a patient) free from fever, in post-classical Latin also dissolved, liquid (5th cent. in Palladius; compare quot. ?1440 at sense 1b), weak or weakened in consistency or colour (1363 in Chauliac; compare quot. ?a1425 at sense 1a), use as adjective of past participle of remittere remit v. Compare Catalan remís (end of the 13th cent.), Spanish remiso (15th cent.), Portuguese remisso (15th cent.).The motivation for the β. forms is uncertain; perhaps compare remise v.¹ or remise n.¹

Now chiefly in predicative use.

†a. Chiefly Medicine. Of a physical property or quality: reduced in intensity. Also of urine: dilute, watery. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > dilute

remiss?a1425

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 37^v Signez of cause of fleume beþ mich inflacioun with remisse [?c1425 Paris litel; L. remissa] rednez, hete, & akyng.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 323 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 497 (MED) His vryne was remys, attenuat By resoun gendryd of ffrigidite.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. xxvii^v An vrine that is pale of coloure..if it be remysse than is there great coldnesse in the body.

1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. xxviij^v, in Bulwarke of Defence If the flesh be remisse redde, and hoat in felyng, whych maie be rectified with Vnguentum Album.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 2 The cold with us is much more remisse than in some parts of France and Italie.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. iv. 69 The vrine became of a remisse and light colour, such as it was wont to be.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 28 Her Warmth is so remiss and slack, that she seemeth to befriend a Cold Influence.

1720 tr. L. Bellini Mech. Acct. Fevers 90 For the same Reason also..will such Heat be more diffused and general, and not burning and unequal, like that of a more intense Nature, but mild and remiss.

1766 C. Bisset Med. Ess. & Observ. 55 The native heat at the surface of the body, about the præcordia, was rather below the natural standard, and in the extremities it was still more remiss.

†b. Dissolved; liquid. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [adjective]

moltena1400

eliquate?a1425

remiss?1440

resolveda1500

liquefacted1598

liquefied1599

fluidified1842

liquated1874

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 1126 (MED) White wax, hard picche, remysse ammonyake—This iij commyxt therefore is good to take; Or thus: ammoniak remysse [L. remissum] and figis.

c. Originally: (of a sound) weak, soft, low. In later use: (of a syllable) unstressed.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > [adjective]

smalleOE

stillc1000

softc1230

dim1398

lowc1400

obscure?a1450

basea1500

remiss1530

indistinct1589

demiss1646

faint1660

murmurant1669

faintish1712

slender1785

under1806

unclamorous1849

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 16 They gyve..unto theyr consonantes but a sleight and remisshe sounde.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 203 Instruments which have a more acute or treble sound when the strings are stretched, and a lower and more remisse when they are loosened.

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 246 The voice acute and smooth, or remiss, with a little trembling.

1705 J. Edwards Preacher 199 Some Words that are Emphatical, are to be uttered with a vehemency of Voice, and some with a lower and remiss Accent.

1787 Berwick Museum III. 159/1 An acute small voice denotes timidity and cowardice, and more particularly so, the acute remiss voice.

1835 R. G. Parker Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading xxxv. 97 The unaccented syllables, or those which require the remiss action of the voice, have hyphens - under them.

1986 Jrnl. Linguistics 22 420 The remiss syllable before the final foot is always lower in pitch than that which begins the final foot.

2003 P. Simpson Disc. Satire ii. 24 The trochaic metrical units of the Poppins version, with ictus and remiss syllables distinguished, opens up the spoken discourse parallels with (14).

†d. Of a condition, disease, etc.: not intense or strong; moderate, mild. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1573 P. Moore Almanack E vj But all euills shall seeme more remisse and tolerable than they were the laste yere.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 123 The King fell sick of the Small-Pocks, but the malignity was very remisse, and gentle.

1700 J. Ray Persuasive to Holy Life viii. 69 What more remiss and void of trouble than Clemency? What more busy and toilsome than Cruelty?

1701 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. (ed. 3) 129 As to the other differences of the Symptoms that accompany stationary Fevers, they only respect the various Reasons of the Constitution, and so they are either intense or remiss.

1702 J. Purcell Treat. Vapours 12 If the cause lies in the Blood, it must have some time to be form'd and collected in a sufficient quantity; (during which time, if you please, the Symptoms are more remiss).

1725 E. Strother Ess. Sickness & Health (ed. 2) 119 A Carus, is a more remiss Apoplexy, as a Coma is a weaker Carus.

1745 J. Tennent Physical Disquis. 68 On the 11th, she was much better, the Fever abated, Expectoration easy, but not copious, and the other Symptoms quite remiss.

†e. Of degree: moderate, low, slight; lesser. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > low in degree or intensity

littleeOE

lowa1300

remiss1620

low-grade1891

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 104 Note that these middles haue contrariety in them in the remisse, or remote degree.

1653 R. Austen Spirituall Vse of Orchard 16 in Treat. Fruit-trees Distinct, and severall works of Nature, in moderate, and remisse degrees, are all promoted, at the same time.

1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 104 Retaining the same..properties in a remiss degree.

1812 J. Hill Family Herbal 342 It has the same virtues with the other, but in a more remiss degree.

†f. Of taste or flavour: faint, slight. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective]

wallowc897

smatchless?c1225

unsavoury?c1225

fresha1398

savourlessa1398

wearish1398

wershed1398

fond?c1430

unsavoured1435

palled1440

mildc1450

walsh1513

wallowish1548

dead1552

waterish1566

cold1585

flatten1594

seasonless1595

wersha1599

blown1600

flash1601

fatuous1608

tasteless1611

flat1617

insipid1620

ingustable1623

flashy1625

flatted1626

saltless1633

gustless1636

remiss1655

rheumatical1655

untasteable1656

vapid1656

exolete1657

distasted1662

vappous1673

insulse1676

toothless1679

mawkisha1697

intastable1701

waugh1703

impoignant1733

flavourless1736

instimulating1740

deadish1742

mawky1755

brineless1791

wishy-washy1791

keestless1802

shilpit1814

wish-washy1814

sapidless1821

silent1826

slushy1839

bland1878

spendsavour1879

wish-wash1896

dolled1917

spiceless1980

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick v. iii. 126 The Taste..is lessened when it scarce perceiveth remiss savors and strong savors but a little.

†2. Reduced in tension; slack, loose; relaxed. Cf. remissive adj. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > slack or not tense

slakec1374

slackc1386

remiss?a1425

loosec1460

relax1605

lax1660

stray1791

relaxed1825

unstraitened1859

unstrained1882

tensionless1905

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 9^v Þe Articulacion of bones is comprehended in þe Circuite with ligamentz stronge & remisse [?c1425 Paris weyker or febler; L. remissiuis].

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 98^v Ligature which, forsoþ, is remisse or slakke [L. remissa] holdeþ not þe bones.

1623 King James VI & I in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 116 Not alwayes to use his spurs and keep strait the rein, but sometimes to use the spurs and suffer the reins more remiss.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 37 The turned up Hand, (the Thumbe bent in, and the other Fingers remisse).

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 458 What availes Valour or strength,..quelld with pain Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands Of Mightiest.

1727 tr. Plutarch Lives VII. 139 Agis held the Reins with too gentle and remiss a Hand.

a. Of a person, an organization, etc.: neglectful in the discharge of a task or duty; careless, negligent. Also with in, with.

ΚΠ

1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §46. m. 7 If any custumer or comptrollour of any porte be necligent or remisse in noon pakkyng of the said clothes..every such custumer and countrollour, for every such defaute, forfeit unto the kyng .xx. s.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 31 Þou shalt gretly sorwe þat þou hast be so remysse [L. remissus] & so negligent.

?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Dvi If thou be in offyce,..Be nat more remyse, do nat thy dutye lesse.

1567–8 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 610 Certifeing the personis..that beis fund remysse or negligent in the premissis.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxii. 298 As well as too remisse in choyce, we may be too precise.

1643 W. Young Vade Mecum 44 Officers remisse to collect rates.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 239 In seeking just occasion to provoke The Philistine..Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.

1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 3 Who can tell, if..they might not in long tract of time have grown remiss in the duties..of Religion?

1746 C. Macklin Henry VII iv. vi. 73 Sir David Bruce is not Wont to be remiss. He is sure and trusty.

1776 C. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 158 Though I confess I am naturally remiss, I have not neglected my duty in this point.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 55 The satrap..had become as remiss as before in making the stipulated payments.

1862 J. Devey Life of Joseph Locke xxi. 303 The House, always remiss when the voting of large sums of money is concerned, is never more remiss than when such sums relate to the naval administration.

1893 Academy 10 June 497/1 He was a very remiss correspondent.

1935 R. A. Knox Barchester Pilgrimage i. 43 The signora had taken care to develop an imaginary ailment, over which she hastened to consult him professionally if she found him remiss in paying his devoirs.

1987 T. C. Boyle World's End (1988) ii. xxviii. 371 Woe to the unsuspecting scholar who was remiss with his payment.

2004 S. A. Halpern Lesser Harms vi. 137 The board was remiss in failing to identify research findings linking hexamethonium to lung damage.

b. Of conduct, an action, etc.: characterized by carelessness, negligence, or lack of attention.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > indiligent or remiss > characterized by indiligence or renissness

slackc900

remiss?1504

unassiduous1776

?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxiii. 173 Than shalte thou repent full sore of thy remysse and neclygent lyfe [L. valde dolebis, quia tam negligens, et remissus fuisti].

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccvi^v Idylnes By wayes remys and dranynge neglygence Of all other synne is rote.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xvi. 216 In the eares of God a vehement desire is a greate crye, a remisse and carelesse intention is a submisse and still voyce.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxviii. 76 I, in the beginning of my Principality, seemed to be of a remiss spirit, and totally incapable of the great affairs of State.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 169 To exert Almighty Power in a remiss and lazy manner, is infinitely Base and Dishonourable.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 471. ¶6 Hope..keeps the Mind awake in her most Remiss and Indolent Hours.

1754 D. Bellamy Family-preacher I. 198 How highly blame-worthy are we..as to read them in a careless and remiss manner, as an unwelcome task.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. viii. 663 [He] was appointed, under the..expectation, that he would supply what had been remiss in the conduct of his predecessor.

1886 Illustr. London News 20 Feb. 194/2 It was remiss in Aunt Louisa not to have offered to be her chaperon.

1955 F. Owen Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life & Times xxxiv. 738 It broke..in Britain with a statement by the Bishop of Bradford, rebuking the King for his remiss conduct.

1985 S. O'Brien Negative Scream 126 It would be totally remiss of me not to mention the numerous self-help groups that exist.

2005 J. Littlewood Biol. Weapons Convent. iv. 103 The failure of the reformists to exploit this opportunity was remiss.

a. Characterized by a lack of strictness or proper restraint; lax, undisciplined.In later use merging with sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of strictness > [adjective]

largeda1382

softc1405

largea1450

laxc1450

remissa1500

milda1530

gentle1533

slender1577

relax1609

unconstraining1644

unoppressive1648

inoppressive1661

unaustere1741

undespotic1821

light-touch1949

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > indiligent or remiss

nesheOE

slackc897

undreigha1350

dissolutea1382

defaultyc1390

defaultive1398

remissivec1487

remissa1500

slakea1538

undiligent1564

unindustrious1599

discinct1604

unofficious1611

inindustriousa1631

indiligent1633

lax1812

remissful1836

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 37 (MED) The religiose man þat is wiþoute discipline is open to a greuous falle; He þat euermore sekiþ þo þinges þat are most laxe and most remisse shal euer be in anguissh [L. qui laxiora quærit et remissiora, semper in angustiis erit].

1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance Pref. sig. av^v By the lasciuiouse and remisse education of Varius Heliogabalus, he grewe to be a person most monstruouse in liuing.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Fvii This ouer great lenitie, & remisse libertie in the education of youthe.

1624 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 160 So dangerous it is for Princes by a remiss comportment, to give growth to the least Error.

1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 224 A seldom restraint,—a remiss discipline.

1723 R. Blackmore Alfred vii. 215 Alfred returns to Court,..and while there, growing more remiss and less guarded, he tastes the Pleasures of the Place with unwarrantable Liberty.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 157. ⁋3 Many among my fellow-students took the opportunity of a more remiss discipline to gratify their passions.

1786 J. Appleton Coll. Disc. II. 357 I own these commands are harsh. But to whom? To such remiss and lax people, who, on the plea of it's great severity, take no pains to fulfil what this holy law enjoins.

1845 Biblical Repository Apr. vi. 342 No denomination in this country, excepting the Unitarian, is so remiss in discipline..as the great body of the Episcopal church.

1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. lviii. 503 The men were generally attached to Vitellius, whom they knew, and liked perhaps for his largesses, or his remiss discipline.

2004 L. Kohn Daoist Monastic Man. xx. 172 One violates the dignified observances on the outside and becomes remiss and lax in one's mind on the inside.

b. Not strict or severe in punishing; lenient.In later use merging with sense 3a.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > [adjective] > severe > not severe

remiss1569

unpenal1641

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 927 They were gentle and remisse to a great number, and specially to such as offended by cohercion and feare.

1614 Publication & Censure Priuate Combats (title page) Straitly charging all officers, and other his Majesties subiects, to vse no conniuencie, or remisse proceeding toward such offenders.

1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 175 Coming in by the Peoples favour, he was obleiged to be rather remisse, then rigorous.

1694 Bp. G. Burnet Four Disc. p. vii Private Men might among the Jews, when the Magistrate was remiss, fall upon Offenders, and punish them, especially in the case of Idolatry.

1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. xii. 238 Unless they discouraged such a Piece of Villainy with proper Severity, it might hereafter be their own Lots, if they were remiss in punishing the present Offender.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit x. 122 Could it be that the statutes of the land were so remiss as to have affixed no punishment to such delinquency?

1908 J. Gairdner Lollardy & Reformation III. Introd. p. xxix He was favoured by the Prior who was remiss in punishing his manifest offences.

1981 R. L. Greaves Society & Relig. in Elizabethan Eng. v. 234 Barrow believed that the High Commission was remiss in punishing adulterers, settling for..mulcting rather than death.

†5. Delayed, postponed. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed

remiss?1518

adjourned1538

delayed1548

long-delayed1548

lag1552

prorogued1552

dilated1556

lagging1597

retardate1598

fristeda1600

lagged1602

retarded1636

deferred1651

prorogatory1672

lated1676

postponed1819

protracted1838

suspended1848

put-off1871

hung up1878

held1906

?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Cii In sentence remyse, is lesser iniury Than in heedlynge sentence, pronounsed hastely.

†6.

a. Free from vehemence or violence; gentle; (also) lacking in energy or effort. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective]

light?c1225

moderatea1398

sober1398

weakc1400

meanly?a1425

treatablec1450

slenderc1475

remiss1550

quiet1560

unpassionatea1600

relaxative1611

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War f. 14 The one is more vehemente for to moue mens hartes, the other more remys [Fr. remys] and gentle.

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 189 Euen so after meate,..our will prone to wickednesse, is become more remisse and temperate.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) f. 295^v Gif Saxouns has stout, and ȝe remys, corage [etc.].

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 32 The Hand restrained and kept in is an argument of modesty..sutable to a milde and remisse declamation.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 190 Its Motion becomes more languid and remiss.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 364 A remiss Pulse, is when it is small and slow.

1727 Art Speaking in Publick vi. 84 An Orator ought not to be too Remiss, neither in his Action, nor too Mild-spoken.

1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 179 The passion must neither be too violent nor too remiss.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xlv. 493 Pain or dissatisfaction experienced, when the energy elicited is either inordinately vehement or too remiss.

1859 A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives I. 331 Elpinice..induced him to be more remiss and gentle in urging the charge.

b. Free from work or labour. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > [adjective] > free (of time)

unoccupied?a1439

avoid1488

void1530

vacant1531

remiss1566

spared1580

nugifrivolous1589

sparea1610

leisure1669

1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse iv. xxii. f. 45 With great lamentation was ordained a remisse time [L. iustitium] for that day.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† remissv.

Forms: late Middle English remisse, late Middle English–1500s remysse, 1600s–1800s remiss.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin remiss-, remittere.

Etymology: < classical Latin remiss-, past participial stem of remittere remit v. Compare remise v.¹, remit v.

Obsolete.

a. transitive. To lessen, abate, mitigate. Cf. remit v. 6c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)]

temperc1000

keelc1175

slakea1300

abate?c1335

settle1338

swagea1340

modifyc1385

rebatea1398

bate1398

moder1414

releasea1425

remiss?a1425

moderate1435

alethe?1440

delaya1450

appal1470

addulce1477

mollify1496

mean?a1513

relent1535

qualify1536

temperatea1540

aplake1578

slack1589

relaxate1598

milden1603

mitigate1611

relax1612

alleniate1615

allay1628

alloy1634

castigate1653

smoothen1655

tendera1656

mitify1656

meeken1662

remitigate1671

obviscate1684

slacken1685

chastise1704

dulcify1744

absorb1791

demulceate1817

chasten1856

modulate1974

mediate1987

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)]

fordita800

forheedc1275

forget1297

to let out ofa1300

spele1338

to go beside ——a1382

waivec1400

remiss?a1425

to go by ——?c1450

misknowledge?a1475

misknow1483

misken1494

to go besides ——1530

to let pass1530

unregard1545

unmind1562

overlook1570

mislippen1581

suspend1581

omit1589

blanch1605

to blow off1631

disregard1641

to pass with ——1641

to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654

prescind1654

nihilify1656

proscribe1680

unnotice1776

ignore1795

to close one's mind1797

cushion1818

to leave out in the cold1839

overslaugh1846

unheed1847

to write off1861

to look through ——1894

scrub1943

the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > dissolve [verb (transitive)]

melteOE

defy1393

dissolvea1475

decoct1540

remiss?1541

liquefy1547

solve1794

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 40 Auicen in þis case when þat þe hete is remissed [?c1425 Paris remysse, i.slacche] commaundeþ for to distille tyme after tyme wiþ a poyntelle inuolued with cotone.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Hiij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens It behoueth asmoche to intende & augment the vertue of the said medycament, as it shulde be remyssed & dymynysshed in y^e depth of the body.

1573 P. Moore Almanack F j b Oftentymes the drought shall be remyssed and tempered with shoures.

b. transitive. To forgive, remit; to disregard.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)]

atletc1200

forheedc1275

forget1297

lachesc1425

remiss1443

to go by ——?c1450

unregard1545

recklessc1560

to fling aside1587

disregard1641

unheed1847

society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > forgive [verb (transitive)]

pardon1433

remiss1443

apardon1535

reprieve1591

1443 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 250 (MED) The King hath pardoned, remissed, & relessed unto John Clerc..all maner felonies, trespasses, & offenses by him doon.

c1500 Melusine (1895) 335 Al that ye shal doo with good wyll I remysse it to your penaunce.

1605 S. Daniel Trag. Philotas iv. ii. sig. E5 Words, if they proceed of leuity Are to be skornd, of madnesse pittied if out of malice or of iniury To be remiss'd or vnacknowledged.

1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 103 Once, yea twice have I spoken, but for future wil be wiser, and so compress and remiss it.

2. transitive. To assign; to adjudge. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > assign or allot

givec1050

bequeatha1325

ordaina1325

assign1340

sortc1374

sign1389

betakea1400

beteacha1400

remiss1525

allot1534

carve1578

divide1600

to set off1687

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccix. [ccv.] 643 The herytage was remyssed and iudged [Fr. adiuge et remys] into the handes and possessyon of the Erle of Brayne.

3. transitive. To send back (an answer). rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [verb (transitive)] > send answer in return

yield?c1225

return1554

remiss1633

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xix. 113 Answere was remissed by the President, that the State was well perswaded of his loyaltie and innocencie.

4. transitive. Law. = remise v.¹ 1. Chiefly in legal formulas.

ΘΚΠ

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

1701 A. Rawson in A. Glover Glover Memorials & Genealogies (1867) 215 And by these..do fully and absolutely remiss, release and forever Quitclaim unto my said brother..all the Estate, Right, Title,..or demand which I ever had.

1754 T. Wise Newest Young Man's Compan. 83 Know all men by these presents, That I..have remissed, released, and for ever quitted claim..all and all manner of actions [etc.].

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 108 I, A. B...having remissed, released, and for ever quit claim to C. D...of all..debts, dues, duties.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	remiss
释义	† remissn. Origin: Probably either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: remiss adj.; remiss v.; remissness n. Etymology: Probably < either remiss adj. or remiss v., or perhaps a transmission error for remissness n. Obsolete. rare. Relaxation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of strictness > [noun] > lessening of strictness or severity remiss1589 relaxation1593 relax1597 remorse of equity1597 relentment1628 thaw1950 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xix. 32 Such manner of men as by negligence of Magistrates and remisses of lawes euery countrie breedeth great store of. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021). remissadj. Brit. /rᵻˈmɪs/, U.S. /rəˈmɪs/, /riˈmɪs/ Forms: α. late Middle English–1500s remys, late Middle English–1500s remysse, late Middle English–1600s remisse, late Middle English– remiss, 1500s remisshe, 1500s–1700s remis, 1600s remish. β. 1500s remise, 1500s remyse; Scottish pre-1700 remise. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French remis; Latin remissus, remittere. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French remis, remisse melted (of wax, etc.) (first half of the 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), diminished, weakened, exhausted (c1240), weak, negligent, lazy (c1310), delayed, postponed (a1405), calm, serene (1496), (of a vowel) weak, soft, low (1521) and its etymon classical Latin remissus not drawn tight, slack, drooping, sagging, loosely arranged, (of activity or sound) free from passion or vehemence, gentle, relaxed, mild, (of people) free from constraint or solemnity, light-hearted, easy-going, slack, casual, lenient, forbearing, (of conditions) moderate, (of remedies) not potent, (of a patient) free from fever, in post-classical Latin also dissolved, liquid (5th cent. in Palladius; compare quot. ?1440 at sense 1b), weak or weakened in consistency or colour (1363 in Chauliac; compare quot. ?a1425 at sense 1a), use as adjective of past participle of remittere remit v. Compare Catalan remís (end of the 13th cent.), Spanish remiso (15th cent.), Portuguese remisso (15th cent.).The motivation for the β. forms is uncertain; perhaps compare remise v.¹ or remise n.¹ Now chiefly in predicative use. 1. †a. Chiefly Medicine. Of a physical property or quality: reduced in intensity. Also of urine: dilute, watery. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > dilute remiss?a1425 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 37^v Signez of cause of fleume beþ mich inflacioun with remisse [?c1425 Paris litel; L. remissa] rednez, hete, & akyng. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 323 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 497 (MED) His vryne was remys, attenuat By resoun gendryd of ffrigidite. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. xxvii^v An vrine that is pale of coloure..if it be remysse than is there great coldnesse in the body. 1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. xxviij^v, in Bulwarke of Defence If the flesh be remisse redde, and hoat in felyng, whych maie be rectified with Vnguentum Album. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 2 The cold with us is much more remisse than in some parts of France and Italie. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. iv. 69 The vrine became of a remisse and light colour, such as it was wont to be. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 28 Her Warmth is so remiss and slack, that she seemeth to befriend a Cold Influence. 1720 tr. L. Bellini Mech. Acct. Fevers 90 For the same Reason also..will such Heat be more diffused and general, and not burning and unequal, like that of a more intense Nature, but mild and remiss. 1766 C. Bisset Med. Ess. & Observ. 55 The native heat at the surface of the body, about the præcordia, was rather below the natural standard, and in the extremities it was still more remiss. †b. Dissolved; liquid. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [adjective] moltena1400 eliquate?a1425 remiss?1440 resolveda1500 liquefacted1598 liquefied1599 fluidified1842 liquated1874 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 1126 (MED) White wax, hard picche, remysse ammonyake—This iij commyxt therefore is good to take; Or thus: ammoniak remysse [L. remissum] and figis. c. Originally: (of a sound) weak, soft, low. In later use: (of a syllable) unstressed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > [adjective] smalleOE stillc1000 softc1230 dim1398 lowc1400 obscure?a1450 basea1500 remiss1530 indistinct1589 demiss1646 faint1660 murmurant1669 faintish1712 slender1785 under1806 unclamorous1849 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 16 They gyve..unto theyr consonantes but a sleight and remisshe sounde. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 203 Instruments which have a more acute or treble sound when the strings are stretched, and a lower and more remisse when they are loosened. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 246 The voice acute and smooth, or remiss, with a little trembling. 1705 J. Edwards Preacher 199 Some Words that are Emphatical, are to be uttered with a vehemency of Voice, and some with a lower and remiss Accent. 1787 Berwick Museum III. 159/1 An acute small voice denotes timidity and cowardice, and more particularly so, the acute remiss voice. 1835 R. G. Parker Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading xxxv. 97 The unaccented syllables, or those which require the remiss action of the voice, have hyphens - under them. 1986 Jrnl. Linguistics 22 420 The remiss syllable before the final foot is always lower in pitch than that which begins the final foot. 2003 P. Simpson Disc. Satire ii. 24 The trochaic metrical units of the Poppins version, with ictus and remiss syllables distinguished, opens up the spoken discourse parallels with (14). †d. Of a condition, disease, etc.: not intense or strong; moderate, mild. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1573 P. Moore Almanack E vj But all euills shall seeme more remisse and tolerable than they were the laste yere. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 123 The King fell sick of the Small-Pocks, but the malignity was very remisse, and gentle. 1700 J. Ray Persuasive to Holy Life viii. 69 What more remiss and void of trouble than Clemency? What more busy and toilsome than Cruelty? 1701 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. (ed. 3) 129 As to the other differences of the Symptoms that accompany stationary Fevers, they only respect the various Reasons of the Constitution, and so they are either intense or remiss. 1702 J. Purcell Treat. Vapours 12 If the cause lies in the Blood, it must have some time to be form'd and collected in a sufficient quantity; (during which time, if you please, the Symptoms are more remiss). 1725 E. Strother Ess. Sickness & Health (ed. 2) 119 A Carus, is a more remiss Apoplexy, as a Coma is a weaker Carus. 1745 J. Tennent Physical Disquis. 68 On the 11th, she was much better, the Fever abated, Expectoration easy, but not copious, and the other Symptoms quite remiss. †e. Of degree: moderate, low, slight; lesser. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > low in degree or intensity littleeOE lowa1300 remiss1620 low-grade1891 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 104 Note that these middles haue contrariety in them in the remisse, or remote degree. 1653 R. Austen Spirituall Vse of Orchard 16 in Treat. Fruit-trees Distinct, and severall works of Nature, in moderate, and remisse degrees, are all promoted, at the same time. 1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 104 Retaining the same..properties in a remiss degree. 1812 J. Hill Family Herbal 342 It has the same virtues with the other, but in a more remiss degree. †f. Of taste or flavour: faint, slight. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective] wallowc897 smatchless?c1225 unsavoury?c1225 fresha1398 savourlessa1398 wearish1398 wershed1398 fond?c1430 unsavoured1435 palled1440 mildc1450 walsh1513 wallowish1548 dead1552 waterish1566 cold1585 flatten1594 seasonless1595 wersha1599 blown1600 flash1601 fatuous1608 tasteless1611 flat1617 insipid1620 ingustable1623 flashy1625 flatted1626 saltless1633 gustless1636 remiss1655 rheumatical1655 untasteable1656 vapid1656 exolete1657 distasted1662 vappous1673 insulse1676 toothless1679 mawkisha1697 intastable1701 waugh1703 impoignant1733 flavourless1736 instimulating1740 deadish1742 mawky1755 brineless1791 wishy-washy1791 keestless1802 shilpit1814 wish-washy1814 sapidless1821 silent1826 slushy1839 bland1878 spendsavour1879 wish-wash1896 dolled1917 spiceless1980 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick v. iii. 126 The Taste..is lessened when it scarce perceiveth remiss savors and strong savors but a little. †2. Reduced in tension; slack, loose; relaxed. Cf. remissive adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > slack or not tense slakec1374 slackc1386 remiss?a1425 loosec1460 relax1605 lax1660 stray1791 relaxed1825 unstraitened1859 unstrained1882 tensionless1905 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 9^v Þe Articulacion of bones is comprehended in þe Circuite with ligamentz stronge & remisse [?c1425 Paris weyker or febler; L. remissiuis]. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 98^v Ligature which, forsoþ, is remisse or slakke [L. remissa] holdeþ not þe bones. 1623 King James VI & I in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 116 Not alwayes to use his spurs and keep strait the rein, but sometimes to use the spurs and suffer the reins more remiss. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 37 The turned up Hand, (the Thumbe bent in, and the other Fingers remisse). 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 458 What availes Valour or strength,..quelld with pain Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands Of Mightiest. View more context for this quotation 1727 tr. Plutarch Lives VII. 139 Agis held the Reins with too gentle and remiss a Hand. 3. a. Of a person, an organization, etc.: neglectful in the discharge of a task or duty; careless, negligent. Also with in, with. ΚΠ 1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §46. m. 7 If any custumer or comptrollour of any porte be necligent or remisse in noon pakkyng of the said clothes..every such custumer and countrollour, for every such defaute, forfeit unto the kyng .xx. s. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 31 Þou shalt gretly sorwe þat þou hast be so remysse [L. remissus] & so negligent. ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Dvi If thou be in offyce,..Be nat more remyse, do nat thy dutye lesse. 1567–8 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 610 Certifeing the personis..that beis fund remysse or negligent in the premissis. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxii. 298 As well as too remisse in choyce, we may be too precise. 1643 W. Young Vade Mecum 44 Officers remisse to collect rates. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 239 In seeking just occasion to provoke The Philistine..Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. 1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 3 Who can tell, if..they might not in long tract of time have grown remiss in the duties..of Religion? 1746 C. Macklin Henry VII iv. vi. 73 Sir David Bruce is not Wont to be remiss. He is sure and trusty. 1776 C. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 158 Though I confess I am naturally remiss, I have not neglected my duty in this point. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 55 The satrap..had become as remiss as before in making the stipulated payments. 1862 J. Devey Life of Joseph Locke xxi. 303 The House, always remiss when the voting of large sums of money is concerned, is never more remiss than when such sums relate to the naval administration. 1893 Academy 10 June 497/1 He was a very remiss correspondent. 1935 R. A. Knox Barchester Pilgrimage i. 43 The signora had taken care to develop an imaginary ailment, over which she hastened to consult him professionally if she found him remiss in paying his devoirs. 1987 T. C. Boyle World's End (1988) ii. xxviii. 371 Woe to the unsuspecting scholar who was remiss with his payment. 2004 S. A. Halpern Lesser Harms vi. 137 The board was remiss in failing to identify research findings linking hexamethonium to lung damage. b. Of conduct, an action, etc.: characterized by carelessness, negligence, or lack of attention. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > indiligent or remiss > characterized by indiligence or renissness slackc900 remiss?1504 unassiduous1776 ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxiii. 173 Than shalte thou repent full sore of thy remysse and neclygent lyfe [L. valde dolebis, quia tam negligens, et remissus fuisti]. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccvi^v Idylnes By wayes remys and dranynge neglygence Of all other synne is rote. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xvi. 216 In the eares of God a vehement desire is a greate crye, a remisse and carelesse intention is a submisse and still voyce. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxxviii. 76 I, in the beginning of my Principality, seemed to be of a remiss spirit, and totally incapable of the great affairs of State. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 169 To exert Almighty Power in a remiss and lazy manner, is infinitely Base and Dishonourable. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 471. ¶6 Hope..keeps the Mind awake in her most Remiss and Indolent Hours. 1754 D. Bellamy Family-preacher I. 198 How highly blame-worthy are we..as to read them in a careless and remiss manner, as an unwelcome task. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. viii. 663 [He] was appointed, under the..expectation, that he would supply what had been remiss in the conduct of his predecessor. 1886 Illustr. London News 20 Feb. 194/2 It was remiss in Aunt Louisa not to have offered to be her chaperon. 1955 F. Owen Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life & Times xxxiv. 738 It broke..in Britain with a statement by the Bishop of Bradford, rebuking the King for his remiss conduct. 1985 S. O'Brien Negative Scream 126 It would be totally remiss of me not to mention the numerous self-help groups that exist. 2005 J. Littlewood Biol. Weapons Convent. iv. 103 The failure of the reformists to exploit this opportunity was remiss. 4. a. Characterized by a lack of strictness or proper restraint; lax, undisciplined.In later use merging with sense 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of strictness > [adjective] largeda1382 softc1405 largea1450 laxc1450 remissa1500 milda1530 gentle1533 slender1577 relax1609 unconstraining1644 unoppressive1648 inoppressive1661 unaustere1741 undespotic1821 light-touch1949 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > indiligent or remiss nesheOE slackc897 undreigha1350 dissolutea1382 defaultyc1390 defaultive1398 remissivec1487 remissa1500 slakea1538 undiligent1564 unindustrious1599 discinct1604 unofficious1611 inindustriousa1631 indiligent1633 lax1812 remissful1836 a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 37 (MED) The religiose man þat is wiþoute discipline is open to a greuous falle; He þat euermore sekiþ þo þinges þat are most laxe and most remisse shal euer be in anguissh [L. qui laxiora quærit et remissiora, semper in angustiis erit]. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance Pref. sig. av^v By the lasciuiouse and remisse education of Varius Heliogabalus, he grewe to be a person most monstruouse in liuing. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Fvii This ouer great lenitie, & remisse libertie in the education of youthe. 1624 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 160 So dangerous it is for Princes by a remiss comportment, to give growth to the least Error. 1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 224 A seldom restraint,—a remiss discipline. 1723 R. Blackmore Alfred vii. 215 Alfred returns to Court,..and while there, growing more remiss and less guarded, he tastes the Pleasures of the Place with unwarrantable Liberty. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 157. ⁋3 Many among my fellow-students took the opportunity of a more remiss discipline to gratify their passions. 1786 J. Appleton Coll. Disc. II. 357 I own these commands are harsh. But to whom? To such remiss and lax people, who, on the plea of it's great severity, take no pains to fulfil what this holy law enjoins. 1845 Biblical Repository Apr. vi. 342 No denomination in this country, excepting the Unitarian, is so remiss in discipline..as the great body of the Episcopal church. 1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. lviii. 503 The men were generally attached to Vitellius, whom they knew, and liked perhaps for his largesses, or his remiss discipline. 2004 L. Kohn Daoist Monastic Man. xx. 172 One violates the dignified observances on the outside and becomes remiss and lax in one's mind on the inside. b. Not strict or severe in punishing; lenient.In later use merging with sense 3a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [adjective] > severe > not severe remiss1569 unpenal1641 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 927 They were gentle and remisse to a great number, and specially to such as offended by cohercion and feare. 1614 Publication & Censure Priuate Combats (title page) Straitly charging all officers, and other his Majesties subiects, to vse no conniuencie, or remisse proceeding toward such offenders. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 175 Coming in by the Peoples favour, he was obleiged to be rather remisse, then rigorous. 1694 Bp. G. Burnet Four Disc. p. vii Private Men might among the Jews, when the Magistrate was remiss, fall upon Offenders, and punish them, especially in the case of Idolatry. 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. xii. 238 Unless they discouraged such a Piece of Villainy with proper Severity, it might hereafter be their own Lots, if they were remiss in punishing the present Offender. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit x. 122 Could it be that the statutes of the land were so remiss as to have affixed no punishment to such delinquency? 1908 J. Gairdner Lollardy & Reformation III. Introd. p. xxix He was favoured by the Prior who was remiss in punishing his manifest offences. 1981 R. L. Greaves Society & Relig. in Elizabethan Eng. v. 234 Barrow believed that the High Commission was remiss in punishing adulterers, settling for..mulcting rather than death. †5. Delayed, postponed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed remiss?1518 adjourned1538 delayed1548 long-delayed1548 lag1552 prorogued1552 dilated1556 lagging1597 retardate1598 fristeda1600 lagged1602 retarded1636 deferred1651 prorogatory1672 lated1676 postponed1819 protracted1838 suspended1848 put-off1871 hung up1878 held1906 ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Cii In sentence remyse, is lesser iniury Than in heedlynge sentence, pronounsed hastely. †6. a. Free from vehemence or violence; gentle; (also) lacking in energy or effort. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] light?c1225 moderatea1398 sober1398 weakc1400 meanly?a1425 treatablec1450 slenderc1475 remiss1550 quiet1560 unpassionatea1600 relaxative1611 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War f. 14 The one is more vehemente for to moue mens hartes, the other more remys [Fr. remys] and gentle. 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 189 Euen so after meate,..our will prone to wickednesse, is become more remisse and temperate. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) f. 295^v Gif Saxouns has stout, and ȝe remys, corage [etc.]. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 32 The Hand restrained and kept in is an argument of modesty..sutable to a milde and remisse declamation. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 190 Its Motion becomes more languid and remiss. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 364 A remiss Pulse, is when it is small and slow. 1727 Art Speaking in Publick vi. 84 An Orator ought not to be too Remiss, neither in his Action, nor too Mild-spoken. 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 179 The passion must neither be too violent nor too remiss. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xlv. 493 Pain or dissatisfaction experienced, when the energy elicited is either inordinately vehement or too remiss. 1859 A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives I. 331 Elpinice..induced him to be more remiss and gentle in urging the charge. b. Free from work or labour. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [adjective] > free (of time) unoccupied?a1439 avoid1488 void1530 vacant1531 remiss1566 spared1580 nugifrivolous1589 sparea1610 leisure1669 1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse iv. xxii. f. 45 With great lamentation was ordained a remisse time [L. iustitium] for that day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † remissv. Forms: late Middle English remisse, late Middle English–1500s remysse, 1600s–1800s remiss. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin remiss-, remittere. Etymology: < classical Latin remiss-, past participial stem of remittere remit v. Compare remise v.¹, remit v. Obsolete. 1. a. transitive. To lessen, abate, mitigate. Cf. remit v. 6c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] temperc1000 keelc1175 slakea1300 abate?c1335 settle1338 swagea1340 modifyc1385 rebatea1398 bate1398 moder1414 releasea1425 remiss?a1425 moderate1435 alethe?1440 delaya1450 appal1470 addulce1477 mollify1496 mean?a1513 relent1535 qualify1536 temperatea1540 aplake1578 slack1589 relaxate1598 milden1603 mitigate1611 relax1612 alleniate1615 allay1628 alloy1634 castigate1653 smoothen1655 tendera1656 mitify1656 meeken1662 remitigate1671 obviscate1684 slacken1685 chastise1704 dulcify1744 absorb1791 demulceate1817 chasten1856 modulate1974 mediate1987 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] fordita800 forheedc1275 forget1297 to let out ofa1300 spele1338 to go beside ——a1382 waivec1400 remiss?a1425 to go by ——?c1450 misknowledge?a1475 misknow1483 misken1494 to go besides ——1530 to let pass1530 unregard1545 unmind1562 overlook1570 mislippen1581 suspend1581 omit1589 blanch1605 to blow off1631 disregard1641 to pass with ——1641 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654 prescind1654 nihilify1656 proscribe1680 unnotice1776 ignore1795 to close one's mind1797 cushion1818 to leave out in the cold1839 overslaugh1846 unheed1847 to write off1861 to look through ——1894 scrub1943 the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > dissolve [verb (transitive)] melteOE defy1393 dissolvea1475 decoct1540 remiss?1541 liquefy1547 solve1794 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 40 Auicen in þis case when þat þe hete is remissed [?c1425 Paris remysse, i.slacche] commaundeþ for to distille tyme after tyme wiþ a poyntelle inuolued with cotone. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Hiij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens It behoueth asmoche to intende & augment the vertue of the said medycament, as it shulde be remyssed & dymynysshed in y^e depth of the body. 1573 P. Moore Almanack F j b Oftentymes the drought shall be remyssed and tempered with shoures. b. transitive. To forgive, remit; to disregard. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] atletc1200 forheedc1275 forget1297 lachesc1425 remiss1443 to go by ——?c1450 unregard1545 recklessc1560 to fling aside1587 disregard1641 unheed1847 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > forgive [verb (transitive)] pardon1433 remiss1443 apardon1535 reprieve1591 1443 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 250 (MED) The King hath pardoned, remissed, & relessed unto John Clerc..all maner felonies, trespasses, & offenses by him doon. c1500 Melusine (1895) 335 Al that ye shal doo with good wyll I remysse it to your penaunce. 1605 S. Daniel Trag. Philotas iv. ii. sig. E5 Words, if they proceed of leuity Are to be skornd, of madnesse pittied if out of malice or of iniury To be remiss'd or vnacknowledged. 1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 103 Once, yea twice have I spoken, but for future wil be wiser, and so compress and remiss it. 2. transitive. To assign; to adjudge. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > assign or allot givec1050 bequeatha1325 ordaina1325 assign1340 sortc1374 sign1389 betakea1400 beteacha1400 remiss1525 allot1534 carve1578 divide1600 to set off1687 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccix. [ccv.] 643 The herytage was remyssed and iudged [Fr. adiuge et remys] into the handes and possessyon of the Erle of Brayne. 3. transitive. To send back (an answer). rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [verb (transitive)] > send answer in return yield?c1225 return1554 remiss1633 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xix. 113 Answere was remissed by the President, that the State was well perswaded of his loyaltie and innocencie. 4. transitive. Law. = remise v.¹ 1. Chiefly in legal formulas. ΘΚΠ 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 1701 A. Rawson in A. Glover Glover Memorials & Genealogies (1867) 215 And by these..do fully and absolutely remiss, release and forever Quitclaim unto my said brother..all the Estate, Right, Title,..or demand which I ever had. 1754 T. Wise Newest Young Man's Compan. 83 Know all men by these presents, That I..have remissed, released, and for ever quitted claim..all and all manner of actions [etc.]. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 108 I, A. B...having remissed, released, and for ever quit claim to C. D...of all..debts, dues, duties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1589adj.?a1425v.?a1425
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† remissn.

remissadj.

† remissv.