demit
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Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry.
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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
This document is now usually styled a "demit," and should specify the good standing of the bearer at the time of his resignation or demission.
From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
The right to demit or resign never has, until within a few years, been denied.
From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
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
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
I am particularly at leisure, having demitted all care of the farm to Mr. Charles, and committed all the income thereof to him, down to the smallest hen's-egg.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
By a Joint Demarcation Commission in 1868 the Russo Chinese boundary in respect to Uriankhai was demitted and eight wooden boundary posts were erected to mark their respective frontiers.
From The Fight For The Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
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