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Webster 1913 Edition
Quit
Quit
(kwĭt)
, Adj.
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
Chaucer.
The owner of the ox shall be
quit
. Ex. xxi. 28.
☞ This word is sometimes used in the form quits, colloquially; as, to be quits with one, that is, to have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him; to be even with him; hence, as an exclamation: Quits! we are even, or on equal terms. “To cry quits with the commons in their complaints.”
Fuller.
Quit
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quit
or Quitted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quitting
.] 1.
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
[R.]
To
quit
you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it? Wake.
2.
To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
There may no gold them
quyte
. Chaucer.
God will relent, and
quit
thee all his debt. Milton.
3.
To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.
The blissful martyr
quyte
you your meed. Chaucer.
Enkindle all the sparks of nature
To
To
quit
this horrid act. Shakespeare
Before that judge that
quits
each soul his hire. Fairfax.
4.
To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; – used reflexively.
Be strong, and
quit
yourselves like men. 1 Sam. iv. 9.
Samson hath
Like Samson.
quit
himselfLike Samson.
Milton.
5.
To carry through; to go through to the end.
[Obs.]
Never worthy prince a day did
With greater hazard and with more renown.
quit
With greater hazard and with more renown.
Daniel.
6.
To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake;
as, to
quit
work; to quit
the place; to quit
jesting.Such a superficial way of examining is to
quit
truth for appearance. Locke.
To quit cost
, to pay; to reimburse.
– To quit scores
, to make even; to clear mutually from demands.
Does not the earth
quit scores
with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? South.
Syn. – To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite.
Quit
,Verb.
I.
To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
Webster 1828 Edition
Quit
QUIT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To leave; to depart from, either temporarily or forever. It does not necessarily include the idea of abandoning, without a qualifying word. A man quits his house for an hour, or for a month. He quits his native country on a voyage or he quits it forever; he quits an employment with the intention of resuming it.2.
To free; to clear; to liberate; to discharge from.To quit you of this fear, you have already looked death in the face. [Nearly obsolete.]
3.
To carry through; to do or perform something to the end, so that nothing remains; to discharge or perform completely.Never a worthy prince a day did quit with greater hazard and with more renown.
4.
To quit one's self, reciprocally, to clear one's self of incumbent duties by full performance.Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
In this sense, acquit is generally used.
5.
To repay; to requite.- Enkindle all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act.
In this sense, quit is now rarely used. We use requite.
6.
To vacate obligation; to release; to free fromDangers of law, actions, decrees, judgments against us quitted.
7.
To pay; to discharge; hence, to free from; as, to quit the debt of gratitude.8.
To set free; to release; to absolve; to acquit.Guiltless I quit, guilty I set them free. In this sense, acquit is now used.
9.
To leave; to give up; to resign; to relinquish; as, to quit an office.10.
To pay.Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. [Not used.]
11.
To forsake; to abandon.Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance.
To quit cost, to pay; to free from by an equivalent; to reimburse; as, the cultivation of barren land will not always quit cost.
To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands by mutual equivalents given. We will quit scores [marks of charges] before we part.
Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in her noble fruits?
QUIT
,Adj.
The owner of the ox shall be quit. Ex. 21. [This word, though primarily a participle, and never placed before its noun, has properly the sense of an adjective.]
Qui tam, [L.] A qui tam action, in law, is a popular action, in which a man prosecutes an offender for the king or state, as well as for himself.