Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of quit
He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 252 more examples
[T]e house of Sassenage, though it might claim its descent from a monarch, preferred Melusinc, and to gratify them it was feigned that when she quitted Lusignan she retired to the grot of Sassenage, in Dauphiny.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 299Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.
1941, Chapman Miske, The Thing in the MoonlightSynonyms: quit
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