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dismission|dɪsˈmɪʃən|
[n. of action from dismiss v., corresponding to L. dīmissiōn-em and OF. desmission ‘dismissing, forgoing, resignation’, etc. (Cotgr.), mod.F. démission renunciation. See the doublets dimission and demission2.]
The action of dismissing; the fact of being dismissed. Now largely replaced in all senses by the equivalent dismissal, q.v.
1. The formal dispersion, or sending away in various directions, of an assemblage of persons; disbanding of troops.
a1646J. Gregory De æris et Epochis in Posthuma (1650) 139 The Indictions began at the verie dismission of the Nicene Council. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 252 To content themselves with that dismission of the new Troops, which was already made. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4840/2 The Diet..had this Day a final Dismission. 1798Wellesley in Owen Desp. 56 The dismission of the French corps raised at Mauritius would discourage other adventurers of that nation. 1825Sporting Mag. XVI. 406 Watching their twelve o'clock dismission from school.
2. The sending away of a person; permission to go, leave to depart; often in earlier use, formal leave-taking.
1608Bp. Hall Char. Virtues & V., Busie-Bodie 81 Hee runnes to them..and after many thanks and dismissions is hardly intreated silence. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 250 After this dismission of Hobab, Israel began to march towards the Desarts. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 190 The King..in presence of all the Court, gives him a dismission. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 31 To give a civil dismission to the visitants. 1791Cowper Odyss. xv. 19 From brave Menelaus ask Dismission hence.
b. A sending away from, or ushering out of, life.
1627Donne Serm. xxviii. 282 There falls..a Dismission, a dismissing out of this world. 1685N. Mather in C. Mather Magn. Chr. (1853) II. 168 Dissolution..is but a dismission of the spirit into its happiness. 1734Watts Reliq. Juv. (1789) 126 Give me a glorious dismission into that intellectual and blissful world. 1795Gibbon Autobiog. 92 The final dismission of the hero through the ivory gate.
3. Deprivation of office, dignity, or position; discharge from service.
1547Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 187 Synce the dismission of my Lord Wriothesley, late Chauncelor. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. ii. Wks. (1851) 76 He was fain at length to seek a dismission from his charge. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VII. vi. 27 The power, madam, of change or dismission thro' the house, is entirely yours. 1816Scott Old Mort. ii, Pains, penalties, and threats of dismission were denounced in vain. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 431 To be punished by dismission from the public service.
b. The written or spoken form of words in which such discharge is couched.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. i. 26 Your dismission Is come from Cæsar, therefore heare it Anthony. 1679Crowne Ambit. Statesm. i. 1 A soft dismission stuft with downy words. 1786F. Burney Diary 8 Aug., The general form of the dismission..is in these words.
4. Release from confinement; setting free, liberation, discharge.
1609Bible (Douay) Lev. xvi. 10 That, whose lotte was to be the goate of dismission. 1642Rogers Naaman 319 The Jew..slave..at his dismission was to have a gratuity paid him. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. i. 38 marg., Order for dismission of prisoners in the Queen's bench.
attrib.1777Howard Prisons Eng. (1780) 244 The dismission fee of each prisoner discharged out of custody.
5. Rejection, discarding; esp. repudiation or putting away of a wife.
1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iii. 57 You in all obey her, Saue when command to your dismission tends. 1643Milton Divorce iv. Wks. (1851) 30 Thence this wise and pious Law of dismission tooke beginning. 1645― Colast. ibid. 353 If hee dismiss her with a beneficent and peacefull dismission.
6. Putting aside from consideration; expulsion from the mind.
1742Young Nt. Th. v. 295 Friends counsel quick dismission of our grief. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 107 The rectitude of Dryden's mind was sufficiently shewn by the dismission of his poetical prejudices. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. §70 To demand of him an instant and peremptory dismission of all his former opinions. |