† diˈsmit, v. Obs.
Also 4 dismette, 4–5 dis-, dysmytte.
[app. a latinized adaptation, through dismette, of OF. desmetre, repr. a late pop. L. type dismittĕre instead of cl. L. dīmittĕre (cf. dimit).]
1. trans. To send away, dismiss; to let go, release; = dimit v. 1.
| 1382 Wyclif Acts iii. 13 Whom ȝe..denyeden bifore the face of Pilate, him demynge for to be dismyttid [Vulg. dimitti] or left. Ibid. xvii. 10 Bretheren dismittiden Poul and Silas in to Beroan. |
2. refl. To divest or deprive oneself of; to surrender, relinquish. Cf. dismiss v. 10 a.
| 13.. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 536 As longe as þou mayȝt holde in honde, Dismette þe nouȝt of þi londe [Fr. Taunt cum poyez aleyne trere, Ne vus demettez de vostre tere]. 1394 Recognizance in Collect. Top. & Gen. (1836) III. 257 We hadde ous fulliche dismettyd of the same londis. c 1440 Partonope 7372 Gaudyn and Aupatryse Have dyssmyttyde him clene of the pryse. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iv. iv. 164/1, I wolde not counseyll theym fully to dysmytten them of her good. |