Quit′table, capable of being quitted.- ns. Quit′-rent, a rent by which the tenants are discharged from all other services-in old records called white rent, as being paid in silver money.- adj. ( B.) set free: acquitted: released from obligation.- n. to pay, requite: to release from obligation, accusation, &c.: to acquit: to depart from: to give up: to clear by full performance: ( Spens.) to remove by force: ( coll.) to give over, cease:- pr.p. To away to depart to stop doing a thing to ceaseĮtymology: Ĭhambers 20th Century Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes To have done with to cease from to stop hence, to depart from to leave to forsake as, to quit work to quit the place to quit jesting To carry through to go through to the end To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of to conduct to acquit - used reflexively To discharge, as an obligation or duty to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt to make payment for or of to requite to repay To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like to absolve to acquit To set at rest to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive to relieve to clear to liberate Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit Webster Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĪny one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. With pity saw the ill-conceal’d distress,Īnd gave the fair one to the friend’s embrace. The prince, renown’d in bounty as in arms, Such variety of arguments only distract the understanding, such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance, only to serve our vanity. To all will quit ’em and rewards propos’dĮven to slaves that can detect their courses. Then old and fond of issue, took such sorrow, Guiltless I quit, guilty I set them free.Įdward Fairfax. Iron works ought to be confined to certain places, where there is no conveyance for timber to places of vent, so as to quit the cost of the carriage. Stunn’d with hoarse Codrus’ Theseid o’er and o’er. Still I shall hear, and never quit the score, Think on thy sins, which man’s old foe presentsīefore that judge that quits each soul his hire.ĭoes not the air feed the flame? and does not the flame at the same time warm and enlighten the air? and does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it. The time, the place, and our estates require, They both did fail of their purpose, and got not so much as to quit their charges because truth, which is the secret of the most high God, whose proper handy-work all things are, cannot be compassed with that wit and those senses which are our own. To pay any obligation to clear a debt to be tantamount. Would set me highest, and in a moment quit To vacate obligations.Īctions, decrees, judgments against us quitted. Who fair him quitted, as that courteous was. To clear himself of an affair.įully reveng’d hath left them years of mourning. With greater hazard, and with more renown.ĭaniel. To carry through to discharge to perform. To quit you wholly of this fear, you have already looked death in the face what have you found so terrible in it. Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolongįairest and easiest of this cumb’rous charge. Thou art quit from a thousand calamities therefore let thy joy, which should be as great for thy freedom from them, as is thy sadness when thou feelest any of them, do the same cure upon thy discontent. Sure thou wilt love me for this horrid crime. I shall be quit with thee while I was virtuous, We will be quit of thine oath, which thou hast made us to swear. I have quit or quitted.Įtymology: quiter, Fr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes
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