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Brit. /
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t
m
t/, U.S. /pridrmt/ Forms: 15 pretermitt, 15 pretermitte, 15 pretermyt, 15 pretermytt, 15- pretermit, 16-18 praetermit; Sc. pre-17 pretermite, pre-17 pretermitt, pre-17 pretermyt, pre-17 pretermytt, pre-17 prettermet, pre-17 17- pretermit. [< classical Latin praetermittere to leave undone, neglect, to omit, to leave out, to pass over, to fail to take advantage of, to let slip, to disregard, overlook, (in legal use) to omit mention of (an heir) in a will, in post-classical Latin also to interrupt, to bring to an end (Vetus Latina) < praeter- PRETER- prefix + mittere to let go, send (see MISSION n.). Compare Middle French, French 
pretermetre (1452), Spanish pretermitir (end of the 15th cent. or earlier; also pretermittir), Italian pretermettere (beginning of the 14th cent.). Compare PRETERMITTING n. and later PRETERMISSION n.]
1. trans. To neglect or omit (an action, duty, etc.); to leave undone or unused; to fail to attend to. Freq., esp. in early use, with infinitive as object. Now chiefly U.S. Law.
1475 [implied in
PRETERMITTING n.].
1478 in
Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 16/1 Thai pretermittit to allege to a warand.
1482 in T. Thomson
Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 99/1 That causit hir to pretermitt the productioune of hir pruvis.
a1522 G. DOUGLAS tr. Virgil
Æneid VI. viii. 66 Na thyng, my deir frend, did thou pretermyt; All that thow aucht to Deiphobus.
1528 E. F
OXE in N. Pocock
Rec. Reformation (1870) I. 142 We..pretermitted nothing which might in any way conduce to the furtherance thereof.
1576 W. L
AMBARD Perambulation Kent 142 So yet, will I not pretermitte to declare out of other men, such notes as I finde.
1584 R. SCOT Discouerie Witchcraft I. v. 11 He would not haue pretermitted to inuaie against their presumption.
1610 Bible (
Douay
)
II. Wisd. x. 8 For pretermitting wisdom they..did slippe.
1665 T. MANLEY tr. H. Grotius
De Rebus Belgicis 197 Prince Maurice..pretermitted none of those things which had been used by Antiquity in the Art Military.
1665 R. HOOKE Micrographia xiii. 85, I must not pretermit to hint.
a1797 H. WALPOLE Mem. George II (1822) I. 394 Was the necessary defence of her colonies to be pretermitted?
1836 R. W. EMERSON Nature 47 A care..pretermitted in no single case.
1895 J. M. FALKNER Lost Stradivarius ix. 126 The pleasant musical evenings..which John had formerly been used to spend in the company of Mr Gaskell were now entirely prætermitted.
1923 J. BUCHAN Midwinter xi. 185, I will pretermit no effort to keep England neutral in the quarrel.
1949 U.S. Rep. 337 100 The question was specifically pretermitted by the opinion of the Court of Appeals.
2005 Digest Environmental Law (Nexis) July 3 At this time the Court declines, or pretermits, the issuance of a separate Order on the questions discussed.
2. trans.
a. To leave out of a speech, narrative, etc.; to omit; to neglect to mention. Now rare.
a1522 G. DOUGLAS tr. Virgil
Æneid (1959)
VI. xiv. 88 Quha wold thé, gret Cato, lefe onhyt? Or quha with silens Cossus pretermyt [L.
tacitum..relinquat]?
a1538 T. STARKEY Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 110 Bycause I see here ys not the place now to dyspute..I wyl thys pretermytt & set apart.
1598 J. STOW Suruay of London 86 The recitall whereof, I pretermit for breuitie.
1651 T. HOBBES Leviathan (1839) 194 In all kinds of actions by the laws prætermitted, men have the liberty, of doing what their own reasons shall suggest, for the most profitable to themselves.
1746 H. FIELDING True Patriot 21 Jan. 1/3 The Lad.had uttered many wicked Things, which I pretermitted in my Narrative.
1785 T. JEFFERSON Notes Virginia v. 38 The Natural bridge, the most sublime of Nature's works, though not comprehended under the present head, must not be pretermitted.
1879 W. E. GLADSTONE Gleanings Past Years IV. v. 228 Some points of conduct relating to the present war..we advisedly pretermit.
1893 Lafayette (
Louisiana
)
Advertiser (Electronic text) 5 Feb., Pretermitting all references to nationality, political opinions or denominational distinctions or preferences.
b. Theol. To pass over in electing to salvation. Cf. PRETERITION n. 3. Obs. rare.
1608 A. WILLET Hexapla in Exodum 812 God doth..of his owne will, as he electeth some so pretermit others.
c Roman Law. To omit mention of (a descendant or natural heir) in a will. Cf. PRETERITION n. 5. Obs.
1871 E. POSTE tr. Gaius
Elem. Rom. Law Comm. 225 The result of the lex Voconia, coupled with the rules of pretermission and intestacy, is the following: a daughter might take half of her father's estate either as a legatee..or, if pretermitted [L.
praeterita], as heiress.
1887 Tennant's Notary's Man. (ed. 5) 28 A father was bound to institute his children as his heirs, and could not disinherit them unless for very weighty reasons; for if a father pretermitted or passed them over in silence, the testament was void.
3. trans. To neglect to make use of (an opportunity); to allow (time, an occasion, etc.) to pass unused. Now rare.
a1538 T. STARKEY Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 17, I schal never pretermyt occasyon nor tyme of helpyng my cuntrey.
1588 R. GREENE Pandosto sig. F
v, If they pretermitted this good weather, they might stay long ere they had such a fayre winde.
1609 E. HOBY Let. to Mr. T. H. Ded. sig. A3, Throughly to possesse themselues of your fauour, they will pretermit neither time, nor meanes.
1840 J. P. KENNEDY Quodlibet (1860) i. 27, I cannot pretermit the opportunity now afforded me to glance..at some striking events.
1940 Daily Gleaner (
Kingston, Jamaica
)
27 Jan. 8/2 Railway administration..permitted private enterprise to get in first, thus pretermitting a magnificent opportunity.
4. trans. To suspend or stop temporarily; to interrupt or cause to be interrupted; (also) to give up, bring to an end. Now rare.
1539 in R. Renwick
Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 120, I will the suffrage..be alanerlie pretermittit yeirlie ay and quhyll [etc.].
a1661 R. GORDON in W. Macfarlane
Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1907) II. 397 But the parliament..stands pretermitted.
1828 M. R. MITFORD Our Village (1863) 3rd Ser. 484 For her doth Farmer Brookes's mastiff..pretermit his incessant bark.
1846 W. S. L
ANDER Imag. Conversat. King James I & Casaubon in
Wks. I. at
Pretermit, To pretermit the vigour and firmness of Philippe le Bel,..Giovanni Buonacorsi of Lucca published, under the reign of Louis XII., a proposition that the pope was above the king in temporals.
1878 STEVENSON Edinburgh (1889) 36 Some customs..have been fortunately pretermitted.
1882 B. HARTE Flip ii, The monotonous strokes of an axe were suddenly pretermitted.
1975 R. S
TOUT All in Family 62 If I could have them here now, all of them, I would pretermit dinner.
5. trans. To disregard or overlook intentionally; to pass over. Obs.
1542 K
ING H
ENRY VIII
Declar. Scots A ij b, [Such] as we ought not with sufferaunce to pretermitte and passe ouer.
1571-2 in J. H. Burton
Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 111 Quhilk..oppressioun gif it be pretermittit unpuneist.
a1600 (1535)
W. STEWART tr. H. Boece
Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 29974 And had nocht bene the bischop of Annane, Quhilk causit him to pretermit as than, He had persewit..The lordis all.
a1631 J. DONNE Serm. (1958) IX. 212 God pretermits many times errours in circumstance.
1823 C. LAMB New Year's Eve in
Elia 61 The birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be pretermitted by king or cobbler.
DERIVATIVES
pretermitter n. Obs. a person who neglects or omits to do something.
1566 T. DRANT tr. Horace
Medicinable Morall sig. Fv
v, A sluggarde and *pretermitter of duetifull occasions.
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