amit

present singular third person amits · participle present amitting · participle past amitted · past amitted

1. obsoleteTo lose.

   […] and in the event of the said O. H. failing so to complete his title and grant entry to the petitioner, or to shew reasonable cause why he delays or refuses so to do, to find and declare that the said G. H. has forfeited and amitted all right to the said superiority […]

   1848, Alexander Duff, Commentaries on the recent statutes relative to conveyancing

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   And though a loadstone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue, and according to the position in cooling contracts a new verticity from the earth, yet if the same be laid awhile in aqua fortis, or other corrosive water, and taken out before a considerable corrosion, it still reserves its attraction, and will convert the needle according to former polarity.

   1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Concerning the Loadstone

1. A male given name from Sanskrit.

   Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, was renamed Sri Vijaya Puram, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah saying on Friday that it was done to realise "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to free the nation from colonial imprints".

   2024 September 13, “Port Blair renamed Sri Vijaya Puram 'to free nation from colonial imprints'”, in India Today, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2024

2. A diminutive of the male given name Amitabh, from Sanskrit.

1. A male given name from Hebrew.