demit

Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry.

From Time Magazine Archive

So that La Mettrie had to demit; to get out of France rather in a hurry, lest worse befell.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

With these restrictions and qualifications, it cannot be doubted that every Master Mason has a right to demit from his lodge at his own pleasure.

From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey

An authority pregnant to predetermine continental issues for unnumbered years to come, however dread its weight, and however frail and faint his mortal strength, he may not demit.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

FAUCHET, Abbe, at siege of Bastille, his Te-Deums, his harangue on Franklin, his Cercle Social, in First Parliament, motion by, doffs his insignia, King's death, lamentation, will demit, trial of.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

If her Grace had willingly demitted the same, as her Highness did not, her Highness could not have nominated the said Earl of Murray Regent, for there were others to have been preferred to him.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various

On the 2d of October Mr. McPherson arrived from Canada, and I forthwith demitted the charge.

From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by John M'lean

We don't seem yet to have demitted our privilege of talking after service.

From Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

Bishop Provoost of New York, after fourteen years of service, demitted his functions in 1801, discouraged about the continuance of the church.

From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon

There may be Cones and Piramides of any Matter, which demitted with the Point downwards do float atop.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei