demit
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Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry.
From Time Magazine Archive
To demit from a lodge is to resign one's membership, on which occasion a certificate of good standing and a release from all dues is given to the applicant, which is technically called a demit.
From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
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
On the contrary, Lanjuinais the Breton declares that there is one man who never will demit voluntarily; but will protest to the uttermost, while a voice is left him.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
The Experiment of a Cone, demitted with its Base, and after with its Point downwards.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
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
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
Mr. Gladstone demitted office, and then it behoved the students of the University to cast about for a worthy successor.
From On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
