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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.

[Obs.]

Evelyn.

Adj.

[L. emeritus.] Allowed to have done public service.

emerited ‎(not comparable)

(obsolete) Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honourably discharged.
- John Evelyn
  He gave to the Trinity Corporation that land in Deptford on which are built those alms-houses for twenty-four widows of emerited seamen.