Quit , v. i. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a
thing; to cease.
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.
1 Sam. iv. 9. Samson hath quit 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. --
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.
Quit (kw&ibreve;t), a. [OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See Quit, v., Quiet.]
Released from
obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. Chaucer.
The owner of the ox shall be quit.
Ex. xxi.
28. &fist; 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.
Quit (kw&ibreve;t), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
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