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Webster 1913 Edition


Omit

O-mit′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Omitted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Omitting
.]
[L.
omittere
,
omissum
;
ob
(see
Ob-
+
mittere
to cause to go, let go, send. See
Mission
.]
1.
To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
These personal comparisons I
omit
.
Bacon.
2.
To forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect; to pass over.
Her father
omitted
nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Omit

OMIT'

,
Verb.
T.
[L. omitto; ob and mitto, to send.]
1.
To leave, pass by or neglect; to fail or forbear to do or to use; as, to omit an opportunity of writing a letter. To omit known duty is criminal.
2.
To leave out; not to insert or mention; as, to omit an important word in a deed; to omit invidious comparisons; to omit a passage in reading or transcribing.

Definition 2024


omit

omit

See also: omît

English

Verb

omit (third-person singular simple present omits, present participle omitting, simple past and past participle omitted)

  1. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
  2. (transitive) To fail to perform.
  3. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

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Finnish

Verb

omit

  1. Second-person singular indicative present form of omia.
  2. Second-person singular indicative past form of omia.

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French

Verb

omit

  1. third-person singular past historic of omettre