Word Meanings - DIMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Leave to depart; a dismissing. Barrow.

Related words: (words related to DIMISSION)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• LEAVELESS
  Leafless. Carew.
• DEPART
  distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. 1. To part; to divide; to separate. Shak. 2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from
• DEPARTER
  1. One who refines metals by separation. 2. One who departs.
• LEAVEN
  alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
• DEPARTABLE
  Divisible. Bacon.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• LEAVENOUS
  Containing leaven. Milton.
• LEAVER
  One who leaves, or withdraws.
• LEAVE
  To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.
• DISMISSION
  1. The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. 2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace. 3. Rejection; a setting aside as
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
  Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• CLEAVELANDITE
  A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
• CLEAVE
  clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• FORLEAVE
  To leave off wholly. Chaucer.
• UNDEPARTABLE
  Incapable of being parted; inseparable. Chaucer. Wyclif.