Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The act of demitting. · A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo let fall; to depress; to yield. · To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.
From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).
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- Root classification mention*mey- (change)ine-pro
- Unspecified derivation mentiondēmittōla
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