2. The sum or thing remitted. Addison.

Re*mit`tee" (r?-m?t`t?"), n. (Com.) One to whom a remittance is sent.

Re*mit"tent (r?-m?t"tent), a. [L. remittens, p. pr. : cf. F.

rémittent.] Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.

Remittent fever (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate

at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever,

under Malarial.

Re*mit"ter (-t?r), n. 1. One who remits. Specifically: (a) One who

pardons. (b) One who makes remittance.

2. (Law) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he

had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property

under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue

of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit.

Bouvier.

||Re*mit"ti*tur (-t?-t?r), n. [L., (it) is remitted.] (Law) (a) A

||remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of

||excess of damages. (b) A sending back, as when a record is remitted

||by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton.

Re*mit"tor (-t?r), n. (Law) One who makes a remittance; a remitter.

Re*mix" (r?-m?ks"), v. t. To mix again or repeatedly.

Rem"nant (r?m"nant), a. [OF. remanant, p. pr. of remanoir, remaindre.

See Remanent, Remain.] Remaining; yet left. [R.] "Because of the

remnant dregs of his disease." Fuller.

And quiet dedicate her remnant life To the just duties of an humble

wife.

Prior.

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