pretermit

present singular third person pretermits · participle present pretermitting · participle past pretermitted · past pretermitted

1. transitiveTo intentionally disregard (something), to ignore; to neglect or omit.First known use 15th c.

   [V]arious subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not pretermit.

   1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XX, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II

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   [F]or the public, for the redemption of the whole world, God hath (shall we say, pretermitted?) derelicted, forsaken, abandoned, his own, and only Son.

   a. 1632 (date written), John Donne, “Sermon LXXXII. Preached at a Marriage.”, in Henry Alford, editor, The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume IV, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 20

   The liberty of a subject lieth, therefore, only in those things which, in regulating their actions, the sovereign hath praetermitted (such as is the liberty to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own abode, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; and the like).

   1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter XXI, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC

   The fees, or allowances, that are termly given to these deputies, receiver, and clerks, for recompence of these their pains, I do purposely pretermit; because they be not certain, but arbitrary.

   c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations