Remise

Quick meaning: Remise is a verb meaning (transitive, formal) To send or give back.

Meaning

(transitive, formal) To send or give back.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, law) To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.
2. (now historical) A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.
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.
5. (obsolete, law) A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
6. (obsolete) A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.

Example Sentences

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

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

[H]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.

Word Forms

• remises
• remising
• remised

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remit, restitute, redemise, retrocede, refund, reprive.

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