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Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few Grand Lodges have denied the right of a Mason permanently to demit from the Order.

From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey

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

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

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

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

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

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

We don't seem yet to have demitted our privilege of talking after service.

From Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon