单词 | dismission |
释义 | dismissionn. The action of dismissing; the fact of being dismissed. Now largely replaced in all senses by the equivalent dismissal n. 1. The formal dispersion, or sending away in various directions, of an assemblage of persons; disbanding of troops. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > action of scattering or becoming scattered > breaking up of an assembly of people skailing?c1450 breaking up1463 dismissiona1646 break-up1795 dissembly1887 a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 139 The Indictions began at the verie dismission of the Nicene Council. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. ii. vi. 147 To content themselves with that dismission of the new Troops, which was already made. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4840/2 The Diet..had this Day a final Dismission. 1798 Earl Mornington Minutes 12 Aug. in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 56 The dismission of the French corps raised at Mauritius would discourage other adventurers of that nation. 1825 Sporting Mag. 16 406 Watching their twelve o'clock dismission from school. 2. a. The sending away of a person; permission to go, leave to depart; often in earlier use, formal leave-taking. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > sending away or dismissing dimission1530 dismiss1589 recoilmenta1608 dismission1608 discharge1616 dismissmenta1626 cashiering1629 avoidance1633 sending1748 discard1787 dismissala1806 demission1811 turn-away1858 1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices ii. 81 Hee runnes to them..and after many thanks and dismissions is hardly intreated silence. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. v. §3. 298 After this dismission of Hobab, Israel beganne to march towards the Desarts. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 190 The King..in presence of all the Court, gives him a dismission. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 30 To give a civil dismission to the visitants. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xv. 19 From brave Menelaus ask Dismission hence. b. A sending away from, or ushering out of, life. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 445 There fals..a Dismission; A dismissing out of this world. 1685 N. Mather in C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. x. 217/2 Dissolution of the Union between the Soul and Body, is but a Dismission of the Spirit into its Happiness. 1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles (1789) 126 Give me a glorious dismission into that intellectual and blissful world. a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 137 The final dismission of the hero through the ivory gate. 3. a. Deprivation of office, dignity, or position; discharge from service. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun] off-puttinga1387 supplantationa1393 deposal1397 deposition1399 amotion1441 privation1444 subversion1470 deposing1480 dispointment1483 quietus est1530 cassing1550 deprivation1551 remove1553 destitution1554 depose1559 abdication1574 dismissionc1600 renvoy1600 displacement1611 deprivement1630 quietus1635 removal1645 deposure1648 displacing1655 cashierment1656 discarding1660 amoval1675 depriving1705 superannuation1722 separation1779 ouster1782 disestablishment1806 dismissal1849 epuration1883 deprival1886 purge1893 society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > dismissal or discharge discharginga1398 discharge1523 quietus est1530 conduction1538 cassing1550 remove1553 destitution1554 mittimus1596 dismissionc1600 quietus1635 removal1645 cashierment1656 separation1779 dismissing1799 dismissala1806 to give (a person) the sack1825 bullet1841 congee1847 decapitation1869 G.B.1880 the shove1899 spear1912 bob-tail1915 severance1941 sacking1958 termination1974 c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 187 Synce the dismission of my Lord Wriothesley, late Chauncelor. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 81 He..was fain at length to seek a dismission from his charge. 1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. vi. 27 The power, madam, of change or dismission thro' the house is entirely yours. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 42 Pains, penalties, and threats of dismission were denounced in vain. 1849 T. B. Macaulay 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. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. i. 28 Your dismission Is come from Cæsar, therefore heare it Anthony. View more context for this quotation 1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman i. 1 A soft dismission, stuft with downy words. 1786 F. Burney Diary 8 Aug. (1842) III. 66 The general form of the dismission..is in these words. 4. Release from confinement; setting free, liberation, discharge. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > release from confinement unbinding1382 releasing1395 loosing1415 dischargec1458 enlargement1540 release1559 relaxationa1578 unloosing1578 bail1598 loosening1598 releasant1606 enlarge1608 dismission1609 eluctation1627 to let go1631 relaxating1647 unfetteringa1653 disimprisonment1656 disimprisoning1659 absolute discharge1729 disincarceration1831 decarceration1963 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Lev. xvi. 10 That, whose lotte was to be the goate of dismission. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 319 The Jew..slave..at his dismission was to have a gratuity paid him. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation i. 38 (margin) Order for dismission of prisoners in the Queen's bench. 5. Rejection, discarding; esp. repudiation or putting away of a wife. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > divorce of a wife repulsionc1425 repudy?a1475 refusal1482 repudiation1530 dismissiona1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iii. 50 You in all obey her, Saue when command to your dismission tends. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 13 Thence this wise and pious Law of dismission..took beginning. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 8 If hee dismiss her with a beneficent and peacefull dismission. 6. Putting aside from consideration; expulsion from the mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > deliberate forgetting, condoning > [noun] > act of unlearning1579 obliterating1610 dismission1743 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 22 Friends councel quick Dismission of our Grief. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 264 The rectitude of Dryden's mind was sufficiently shewn by the dismission of his poetical prejudices. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. §70 To demand of him an instant and peremptory dismission of all his former opinions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1600 |
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