Verb (used with object), : The government temporarily pretermitted its repayments of foreign aid. From Dictionary.com.
These incidents took place during Lent 1822; she would not pretermit her austerities, and fell into a decline that put her life in danger. From Wordnik.com. [A Second Home] Reference
But as I only stayed eight days in this place, and knew not a syllable of the language, perhaps it is as well to pretermit any disquisitions about the spirit of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference
The terror of his enemies (for 4, the marvel of his age, we pretermit, it being a loose term, that may apply to any person or thing) was now terrified by his enemies in turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
The distinctions that are usually made concerning faith (as it is a word of various significations), I shall wholly pretermit; not only as obvious and known, but as not belonging unto our present argument. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
Then sayd the Accuser: Thou hast preached, sayd, and openly taught diuers and sundry other great errours and abhominable heresies agaynst all the vij. sacraments, which for shortnes of tyme I pretermit and ouer pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
We mean to visit this to-morrow; so I may pretermit further mention of it here. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete] Reference
What precisely is meant by 'ideal' is a question which for the moment I pretermit. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
Then there are all manner of the ordinary maladies of humanity, which I pretermit. From Wordnik.com. [My Life as an Author]
As it is so cold, I think you may pass the word to pretermit the rounds to-night -- save two. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Night] Reference
But fear was too weak a counsellor for her to pretermit either her composure or her pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
Now in the sairvice of Goad and the King 'tis raight to pretermit no aiffort to bring the guilty to justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
'I told him that neither Mr. Frost nor I should wish him to pretermit his duty on any consideration whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference
It cannot be demanded of me to pretermit, because of my crime, the duty more strongly required of me because of the crime. From Wordnik.com. [The Flight of the Shadow] Reference
Egyptian characters which gave the clew to a whole field of history; and shall pretermit all further handling of this unwieldy subject. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
CEDIA Education Chair - Steven Hill said "the opportunity to listen and pick the brains of pretermit acoustician is an incredible and rare experience". From Wordnik.com. [HomeToys News] Reference
We should be very unjust to our friend David Deans, if we should ` ` pretermit '' --- to use his own expression --- a narrative which he held essential to his fame. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Lord, go about to overcome the sense of that fear, so far as to pretermit the fitting and preparing of myself for the worst that may be feared, the passage out of this life. From Wordnik.com. [Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel] Reference
After this I made many other voyages, which I nowe pretermit, and waxing olde, I giue myselfe to rest from such trauels, because there are nowe many yong and lustie Pilots and. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference
In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his hour's lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen's Crawley alone, he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Aboo Abdallah to defend his city; but as I do not wish to make a parade of my learning, or to write a costume novel, I shall pretermit any description of the city under its Moorish governors. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca and Rowena; a romance upon romance] Reference
In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his hours lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queens Crawley alone, he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises. From Wordnik.com. [X. Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends] Reference
But as most of these annals belong to the general history of Kentucky, and do not particularly tend to develop the character of the subject of this biography, we shall pretermit them, with a single exception. From Wordnik.com. [The First White Man of the West]
She has no sobriety and no economyas for gratitude, you will as soon get milk from a whinstone; and if you will pretermit your bounty, it will make no change at all but just to save the ankles of your messengers. From Wordnik.com. [Summary of Events (continued)] Reference
“pretermit” — to use his own expression — a narrative which he held essential to his fame. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
'As to what gentlemen may or may not correspond about, why we may pretermit the question, as the old professor used to say at the. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
(for 4, the marvel of his age, we pretermit, it being a loose term, that may apply to any person or thing) was now terrified by his enemies in turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
A symptom of the main disease, is so violent, that the physician must attend the cure of that, though he pretermit (so far as to intermit) the cure of the disease itself. From Wordnik.com. [Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel] Reference
"He calmly said that no such demonstrations could induce him to add to or withhold a single syllable of what he designed to say, or to pretermit a single act he had designed to do. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his hour’s lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen’s Crawley alone, he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Neither shall I pretermit or postpone your honour's commands, but speedily obey them, and that without delay. ". From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
Neither shall I pretermit or postpone your honour’s commands, but speedily obey them, and that without delay.”. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock] Reference
"The convention did not pretermit the duty of reiterating those principles, and you will find them prominently set forth in the resolutions it adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies] Reference
“The convention did not pretermit the duty of reiterating those principles, and you will find them prominently set forth in the resolutions it adopted. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies]
(Here follow in Mr. Plush's MS. about twenty-four pages of railroad calculations, which we pretermit.) "Those beests, Pump & Aldgate, once so cringing and umble, wrote me. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
"I have been led farther than I had foreseen, and various subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not pretermit. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
1822; she would not pretermit her austerities, and fell into a decline that put her life in danger. From Wordnik.com. [A Second Home] Reference
4, the marvel of his age, we pretermit, it being a loose term, that may apply to any person or thing) was now terrified by his enemies in turn. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1] Reference
"pretermit," "fustigation," "macerate," "ablated," "accretive," "remora," "phlebotomizing,". From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
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