remit

To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

Such a Step as this would raise a Succession of able Seamen, and in a few Years would come to remit a thousand, or perhaps two or three thousand sturdy Youths every Year into the general Class of English Seamen;

Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Mr. Dick is wild with joy, and my aunt remits me a guinea by the next post.

To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

to remit the performance of an obligation

1798, Hannah Brand, Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade, Act V, Scene 8, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, p. 131, I knelt for pardon, for this breach of Oath, Which, thou forgiving, I then shall hope Heaven will remit hereafter punishment;

To give up; omit; cease doing.

1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 12, 19 November, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, p. 124, Among our own sex, there is no race of men more apt to indulge a spirit of acrimony, and to remit their natural Good Humour, than authors.

He who connected himself with a woman whose brother, sister, or other relations, were fugitives, would probably be tempted to remit his pursuit of them, and even to favour their concealment.

To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).

Our Supream Foe in time may much remit His anger,

The wind at sea generally blows with an even steady gale; the wind at land puffs by intervals, encreasing its strength, and remitting it, without any apparent cause.

Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit.

However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.

A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.