demit

Meanings

Verb

  • To let fall; to depress; to yield.
  • To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

Noun

  • The act of demitting.
  • A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

Origin

  • From Latin dēmittō.

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