Word Meanings - DISMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. 2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace. 3. Rejection; a setting aside as

Additional info about word: DISMISSION

1. The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. 2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace. 3. Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

Related words: (words related to DISMISSION)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SENDAL
  A light thin stuff of silk. Chaucer. Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver Sir W. Scott. (more info) LL. cendallum, Gr.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• SETT
  See 3
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• UPSETTING
  Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
• TYPESETTING
  The act or art of setting type.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ROSETTA WOOD
  An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure.
• SUNSET; SUNSETTING
  1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. 2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. Sunset shell , a West
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.