Remissio, ônis, f. g. Verbale. Plin. iu. Remission: forgiuenesse: pardoning. Recreating of the minde after studie or labour: lacke or faintnesse of courage. A slaking: a lewsing.Remissio pœnæ. Cic, Remitring of the punishment.Remissio animi ac dissolutio. Ci. Failing of courage: faintnesse os heart: remissenesse and negligence of mind.Quies & remissio.Cic.Duietnesse and rest.Danda est omnibus aliqua remissio.Quintil.Al must haue some rest or release from labour.Non inutilis laborum remissio. Quint. Prositable remitting, and ceasing from labour.Remissio morbi senescentis.Cic.Slaking of sicknesse wearing away.Remis. io animorum Cice. Recreation of mindes from studie and labour.Remissio & moderatio vocis. Cice. Fauouring of the doyce and temperate speaking.Contentio vocis & remissio, contraria, Cic.Remissio & contractio superciliorum, Cicero.The casting downe and up of the brothes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕmissĭo, ōnis, f. [id.] (acc. to remitto, I. A. and B.), a sending back or away, releasingI.Lit. (rare). 1.A sending back, returning; of persons: obsidum captivorumque, Liv. 27, 17, 1.—Of things, a throwing back, reflecting: splendoris, Vitr. 7, 3, 9.— 2.A letting down, lowering: ex superciliorum aut remissione aut contractione, Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146.—II.Trop.A.A slackening, relaxing, abating, diminishing, remitting; remission, relaxation, abatement (syn. relaxatio): animus intentione suā depellit pressum omnem ponderum, remissione autem sic urgetur, ut se nequeat extollere, Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54: contentiones vocis et remissiones, id. de Or. 1, 61, 261; cf. id. Brut. 91, 314; so, vocis, Quint. 1, 10, 25: sfugmo\s est intentio motūs et remissio in corde et in arteria, Gell. 18, 10, 10: remissio lenitatis quādam gravitate et contentione firmatur,
laxity
, Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 212: operis, Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 7; cf. laboris, id. ib. 2, 6, 4; Quint. 3, 8, 29: tales igitur amicitiae sunt remissione usus eluendae, Cic. Lael. 21, 76: senescentis morbi remissio, id. Fam. 7, 26, 1; so, febris, Suet. Tib. 73: doloris, Scrib. Comp. 99.—2.Slackness, laxness, want of spirit: in acerbissimā injuriā remissio animi ac dissolutio, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9.—3.Relaxation, recreation: ad omnem animi remissionem ludumque descendere, Cic. de Or 2, 6, 22; so, animorum, id. Fam. 9, 24, 3; id. Arch. 7, 16.—Absol.: quem non quies, non remissio, non aequalium studia, non ludi delectarent, Cic. Cael. 17, 39: danda est omnibus aliqua remissio, Quint. 1, 3, 8.—Absol. in plur., Quint. 1, 3, 8, 11; Gell. 15, 2, 5; Plin. Ep. 4, 3, 1, id. Pan. 49, 4: tempora curarum remissionumque, Tac. Agr. 9; id. Or. 28.—4.Mildness, gentleness, lenity: (Adversarius) tum ad severitatem, tum ad remissionem animi est contorquen dus, Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72 (cf. remissus, B. 1.): so, remissione poenae,
by a relaxing
,
diminishing of punishment
,
by a milder punishment
, id. Cat. 4, 6, 13.—B. (Acc. to remitto, I. B. 2. b.) A remitting of a penalty, etc., a remission, Col. 1, 7, 1; Suet. Caes. 20; Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 6; 10, 8, 5: remissio tributi in triennium, Tac. A. 4, 13: nuntiationis,
remission
,
abrogation
, Dig. 39, 1, 8, 4.— Plur.: post magnas remissiones,
reduction of rent
, Plin. Ep. 9, 37, 2.—C. In eccl. Lat., remission, forgiveness of sin, etc.: delicti, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 28: peccatorum, Ambros. de Isaac et Anim. 1, 1; Vulg. Matt. 26, 28; id. Act. 2, 38.— III.A repetition: nova ludorum remissio, Petr. 60, 5.