remise

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmaɪz/

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From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).

remise (third-person singular simple present remises, present participle remising, simple past and past participle remised)

1. (transitive) To send or give back.
2. To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim.

remise (plural remises)

1. (obsolete, law) A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.

From French remise.

remise (plural remises)

1. (now historical) A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.
   • 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, :

     long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […] .

2. (obsolete) A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.
   • 1751, Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., , →OCLC:

     e actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his acquaintance, who had hired a Remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and having accompanied them as far as the village of Passé, returned in the dusk of the evening on foot.

3. (fencing) A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
4. (music) The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.

• remiss

• Meiser, Siemer, Eimers, Meiers, misère, misree

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remise f

1. (medicine) remission

• See mise

• relaps

• “remise”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “remise”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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remise f (plural remises, diminutive remisetje n)

1. carriage house
2. public transport depot
3. (chess) a tie, draw

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.miz/

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From the verb remettre. Compare mise.

remise f sg

1. feminine singular of remis

remise f (plural remises)

1. delivery, handing over; handover
2. remission; reduction
3. discount, reduction
4. shed, carriage house
5. deferment, postponement

From the verb remiser.

remise

1. inflection of remiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “remise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• merise, misère

• IPA^(key): /reˈmise/
• Rhymes: -ise
• Syllabification: re‧mi‧se

remise m (plural remises)

1. (Argentina) taxi, taxicab

   Synonym: taxi