remissory

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English

Adjective

remissory (comparative more remissory, superlative most remissory)

  1. Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission.
    • 1549 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough:
      They would have us saved by a daily oblation propitiatory; by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “remissory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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