demit

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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.

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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.

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The avenger of blood may not demit his duty until some member of the other tribe has been killed.

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The Experiment of a Cone, demitted with its Base, and after with its Point downwards.

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The Court of Arches now issued a suspension against the accused, and condemned them to prison when they continued to officiate, until they declared themselves ready to obey or to demit their office.

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