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verb

Dismiss v. t. (past & past part. dismissed; pres. part. dismissing)

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. "He dismissed the assembly." "Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock." "Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs."

To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

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Etymology of 'Dismissed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dismissed" Quotes from Famous Books

... that a wife, and especially the wife of a clergyman and a scholar, should be able to read a page of Dr. Barrow's sermons without yawning, and should not drop Mr. Pope's Iliad or Odyssey in five minutes unless she happened to light upon some particularly exciting adventure. I therefore dismissed the thought of these young ladies, and the daughters of the surveyor were for the same reasons ineligible, with the added objection that if I chose one of them the squire and his family would never enter the ...

— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford

... nooning when I passed through the gates of the palisade, and an hour later when I finished my report to the Governor. When he at last dismissed me, I rode quickly down the street toward the minister's house. As I passed the guest house, I glanced up at the window from which, at daybreak, the Italian had looked down upon me. No one looked out now; the window ...

— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston

... faction. When it was all over, he said: "Now I can ride; I have got a pumpkin in each end of my bag." Later on he repeated: "I do not see how it could have been done better. I am sure it was right. If I had yielded to that storm and dismissed Seward, the thing would all have slumped over one way, and we should have been left with a scanty handful of supporters." Undoubtedly he had managed very skillfully a very difficult affair, but he ought never to have been compelled to arrange such quarrels ...

— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II • John T. Morse

... course. Those words he had called Cameron's father! How they made his blood boil even now! No, he would not forbear nor forgive Wainwright. God would not want him to do so. It was right he should be against him forever! Thus he dismissed the suggestion and turned to the beginning of his testament, having determined to find the Christ of whom the stranger had set him ...

— The Search • Grace Livingston Hill

... verandah he made his plans. Not for fifty Marquesses would he leave ere the change had come. He decided to telegraph to the butler. Perhaps they would understand. Any way, it could not be helped. If he were to be dismissed, he would try again. Only the fear of unemployment had kept him in Eaton Square. The very thought of Lord Pomfret made his blood boil. Perhaps, even if they said nothing, it ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

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