demit

From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).

demit (third-person singular simple present demits, present participle demitting, simple past and past participle demitted)

1. (transitive) To let fall; to depress; to yield.
2. To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.

• demise
• demission
• mission

demit (plural demits)

1. The act of demitting.
2. A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.

• timed

dēmit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of dēmō