demit
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Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Neither will Barbaroux demit; he "has sworn to die at his post, and will keep that oath."
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The right to demit or resign never has, until within a few years, been denied.
From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
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
But no man is entitled to a demit, unless at the time of demanding it he be in good standing and free from all charges.
From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
If her Grace had willingly demitted the same, as her Highness did not, her Highness could not have nominated the said Earl of Murray Regent, for there were others to have been preferred to him.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
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
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
The Experiment of a Cone, demitted with its Base, and after with its Point downwards.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei