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Pretermit   Listen
verb
Pretermit  v. t.  (past & past part. pretermitted; pres. part. pretermitting)  To pass by; to omit; to disregard.






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"Pretermit" Quotes from Famous Books



... birds, beasts, and fishes, besides fruits, trees, plants, and the like, were seen and observed of us in this journey, which willingly we pretermit as hastening to the end of our voyage: which from this Cape of St. Antonio, we intended to finish by sailing the directest and speediest way homeward; and accordingly, even beyond our own expectation, most ...
— Sir Francis Drake Revived • Philip Nichols

... would gladly question Mr. Shakespeare, that lover of big words, could he revisit the glimpses of the moon, or could I myself climb backward to the spacious days of Elizabeth. But in the second case, I should most likely pretermit these questionings, and take my place instead in the pit at the Blackfriars, to hear the actor in his favourite part, playing up to Mr. Burbage, and rolling out - as I seem to hear him - with a ...
— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Pretermit" :   jump, overleap, skip over, overlook, disregard, attend to, drop, skip, forget, pretermission, leave out



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