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/dɪsmˈɪs/ Listen

verb

Dismiss v. t. (past & past part. dismissed; pres. part. dismissing)

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. "He dismissed the assembly." "Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock." "Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs."

To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

noun

Dismiss n. Dismission. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Dismiss'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... not honor us with your presence?" Franklin asked. "For my part I can see no reason for making a secret of a business of this nature. As to His Lordship's mention of my mistreatment, that done my country is so much greater I dismiss all thought of the other. From the King's speech I judge that no accommodation can ...

— In the Days of Poor Richard • Irving Bacheller

... days on earth may be my best days—best days of implicit faith and unreserved consecration, best days of simple scriptural ministrations and public usefulness, best days of change from glory to glory, and of becoming meet for the inheritance of the saints in light, until my Lord shall dismiss me from the service of warfare and the weariness of toil to the glories of victory and the ...

— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson

... in view, that, namely, of understanding aright and appreciating at their true worth some of the more curious byways along which human thought has travelled. It is easy for the superficial thinker to dismiss much of the thought of the past (and, indeed, of the present) as mere superstition, not worth the trouble of investigation: but it is not scientific. There is a reason for every belief, even the most fantastic, and it should be our object to discover this reason. How ...

— Bygone Beliefs • H. Stanley Redgrove

... the detective resumed at once his brisk voice and alert manner. He seemed to dismiss Servettaz's admission from his mind. Ricardo had the impression of a man tying up an important document which for the moment he has done with, and putting it away ticketed in some pigeon-hole in his desk. "Let ...

— At the Villa Rose • A. E. W. Mason

... obeyed his injunction, but he stared at the length of her jump. "He might attempt to do so, but I shouldn't at all like it." He was moved immediately to dismiss this branch of the subject and, apparently to help himself, take up another. "Do you mean she understands he has asked her down for a regular ...

— The Awkward Age • Henry James

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