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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quit \Quit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quit} or {Quitted}; p. pr & vb n. {Quitting}.] [OE. quiten, OF quiter, quitier, cuitier F. quitter, to acquit, quit LL quietare, fr L. quietare to calm, to quiet, fr quietus quiet. See {Quiet}, a., and cf {Quit}, a., {Quite}, {Acquit}, {Requite}.] 1. To set at rest; to free as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [R.] To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it? --Wake. 2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like to absolve; to acquit. There may no gold them quyte. --Chaucer. God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. --Milton. 3. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of to requite; to repay. The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. --Chaucer. Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act --Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. --Fairfax. 4. To meet the claims upon or expectations entertained of to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. --I Sam. iv 9. Samson hath guit himself Like Samson. --Milton. 5. To carry through to go through to the end [Obs.] Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown. --Daniel. 6. To have done with to cease from to stop; hence to depart from to leave to forsake; as to quit work to quit the place to quit jesting. Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. --Locke. {To quit cost}, to pay to reimburse. {To quit scores}, to make even to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South. Syn: To leave relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite. Usage: {Quit}, {Leave}. Leave is a general term, signifying merely an act of departure; quit implies a going without intention of return, a final and absolute abandonment. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quit \Quit\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See {Banana quit}, under {Banana}, and {Guitguit}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quit \Quit\, a. [OE. quite, OF quite, F. quitte. See {Quit}, v., {Quirt}.] Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free clear; absolved; acquitted. --Chaucer. The owner of the ox shall be quit --Ex. xxi. 28. Note: This word is sometimes used in the form quits, colloquially; as to be quits with one that is to have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him to be even with him hence as an exclamation: Quits! we are even or on equal terms. ``To cry quits with the commons in their complaints.'' --Fuller. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quit \Quit\, v. i. To away to depart; to stop doing a thing to cease. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Guitguit \Guit"guit`\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family {C[oe]rebid[ae]}, allied to the creepers; -- called also {quit}. See {Quit}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: quit adj : (usually followed by `of') released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty); "quit of all further responsibility for their safety"; "well rid of him" [syn: {quit(p)}, {rid(p)}] v 1: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: {discontinue}, {stop}, {cease}, {give up}, {lay off}] [ant: {continue}] 2: resign or retire from a position; "The Secretary fo the Navy will leave office next month" [syn: {leave office}, {step down}] [ant: {take office}] 3: go away or leave [syn: {depart}, {take leave}] [ant: {stay}] 4: turn away from give up "I am foreswearing women forever" [syn: {foreswear}, {renounce}, {relinquish}] 5: give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up" [syn: {drop out}, {give up}, {throw in}, {throw in the towel}, {leave}, {chuck up the sponge}] [ant: {enter}]
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