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QUIT. person) ; 1603 FLORIO Montaigne n. ii. (1897) H*- 29 ^ur m nde '. cannot out of her place attaine so high. She must quit it and raise her selfe aloft. 1623 MASSINGER Dk. Milan iv. ii, We know our duty, And quit the room. 1653 H. COGAN tr. Pinto's Trav. vii. 19 Having quit the river he marched somewhat faster than ordinary. 1732 POPE Ess. Man n. 274 Hope travels thro 1 , nor quits us when we die. 1787 WINTER Syst. Husb. 306 When the earth is sufficiently dry, so as to quit the hoe. 1805 SCOTT Last Minstr. i. iv, They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night. 1833 HT. MARTINEAU Briery Creek v. 100 It is a senous matter to quit country and family and friends. 1874 GREFN Short Hist. v. 242 The labourer was forbidden to quit the parish where he lived. b. absol. To leave the premises which one occu- pies as a tenant. 1768 [see QUITTING v6l. sb.}. x8x8 CRUISE Digest (ed. 2) IV. 74 A lease.. determinable ..on giving reasonable notice to quit. 1831 LAMB Elia Ser. it. To the Shade of F.lliston^ 72 13 . . Coer de L. 1420, 1 schal quyten hym hys mede. a 135* MINOT Poems vii. 66 Inglis men ..quit fam baire hire, c 1400 Gamelyn 512 Ther was non of hemalle..That he ne.. quitte him his dette. 1550 CROWLEY Last Trumpet 446 Let me take vengeance, saith the Lord, And I wyll quyte them all theyr hyre. 1567 Satir. Poems Reform, xiv. 99 All Faithfull hartis quyte thair meid. 1 13. To pay, or give, back ; to give in return. a 1300 Cursor M. 27867 (Fairf.) He gas to paine, til wrange tane ping be quite agame. c 1380 WYCLIF Wks. (1880) 173 Pes worldly prestis . . quiten not ajen but stynkynge preiere bifore god. Ibid. 215 For o schrewed word a man mot quyte anober or moo. 14 . . Good Counsel in King's Quair (.S. T. S.) 51 For ilk ynch he wyll the quyte a spane. QUITCLAIM. 3. reft. To do one's part, behave, bear oneself, (usually in a specified way). Now arch. r 1386 CHAUCER Frankl. T. Prol. i In feith, Squier, tbow hast thee wel yquit. 1455 PastonLett. I. 329 To quyte us lyke men in this querell. 1480 CAXTON Chron. Eng. ccxliii. (1482) 291 Manly and knyghtly he quytte hym in al maner poyntes. 1589 Marfrel. Epit. Dijb, lohn of London .. could haue quited himselfe no better then this. 1611 BIBLE x Sam. iv. 9 Quit your selues like men, and fight. 1642 ROGERS Naaman 188 Labour to quite our selves well in our sufferings, a 1716 SOUTH Serm. (1744) X. 302-3 This is the fourth means to enable us to quit ourselves in the great duty of peaceableness. 1868 BROWNING Ring ff Bk. v. 278, I rode, danced and gamed, Quitted me like a courtier. f b. To acquit oneself (well, etc.) of a task or duty. Obs. 14x3 Pilgr.Sowle (Caxton 1483) v. xi. 103 Of these, .seuen [signes] ye haue quyte yow well, c 1450 Robin Hood 4- Monk Ixxvii. in Child Ballads III. 100/2, I haue done be a gode turne for an euyll, Quyte be whan bou may. 1600 HAKLUYT Voy. (1810) III. 383 One which knewe so well to quite himselfe of his charge, that all rancour., ceased. f c. To use (the hands) ; to play (one's part). 1396 HARINGTON Metaw, Ajax (1814) 35 That I were as likely to quit my hands in the fray as well as any man. 1603 SHAKS. Meas.for M. ir. iv. 28 The generall subiect to a wel-wisht King Quit their owne part, f 4. To remit (a debt, etc.). Obs. rare. 1400 Rom. Rose 6032 They shall quyte oth al free. your 1523 LD. BERNERS Froiss. I. xvtii. 22 The lordes dyd quyt me my ransom and prison. 1596 SHAKS, Merck, y. iv. i. 381 To quit the fine for one halfe of his goods, I am content. 1671 MILTON Samson 509 Perhaps God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. 1693 Drydeit's Juvenal vii. (1697) 178 For that Revenge I'll quit the whole Arrear. 5. To give up, let go, renounce, etc. to cease ; to have, use, enjoy, be engaged in or occupied with. (Freq. with implication of sense 70 c 1440 Generydes ^608 As for the land of Perce . . My lord and fader quyte it m his dayes. 1560 ROLLANO Crt. Venus i. 900 The copie clene I quite it is sa skant. x6ia SELDEN To Rdr. in Drayton's Poly-olb., The Capricious faction will . . neuerquit their Beliefe of wrong. ax66x FULLER Worthies (1840) II. 434 It seems that tbe Christian Britons at the font quitted their native names as barbarous. 1671 True Nonconformist 2 That Nonconformists think they may quite the communion of the church, if [etc.]. *7"9 BuTLERiSVrw. Resentm. Wks. 1874 II. 100 Resentment has taken possession of the temper, ..and will not quit its hold. 1788 FRANKLIN Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 156 Choosing rather to quit their power than their principle. 1828 D'!SRAELI Chas, /, II. ii. 47 Richelieu, once resolved, never quitted his object, till it became his own. 1851 HELPS Comp.Solit. xiii. (1874) 236 There are very few men who know how to quit any great office. b. To give up, yield, hand over to another. Now rare or Obs. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 101, I have leuer to quytte yow and gyue yow my parte. 1559 KENNEDY Lett, to Willockin Wodrow Misc. (1844) 273, I quyte 3ou the haill cause without farther disputatioun. 1617 HAKEWILL Apol. (1630) 106 As God had quitted unto them, all dominion over his creatures. 1647 CLARENDON Hist, Reb. in. 138 He might wisely quit his Mastership of the Wards to the Lord Say. 1769 ROBERTSON Chas. P', xn. Wks. 1826 III. 371 Every argument which . . could induce him to quit the Imperial throne to Philip. 1824 J. JOHNSON Typogr. I. 551 His father seems to have quitted the trade to him in 1576. c. To let go (something held or grasped). 1633 G. HERBERT Temple 122 Love unknown n The servant instantly Quitting the fruit, seiz'd on my heart alone, 1711 ADDISON Spect. No. 102 F 7 This teaches a Lady to quit her Fan gracefully when she throws it aside. 1808 J. BARLOW Columb. vni. 82 The weak moment when she quits her shield. 1841 ELPHINSTONE Hist. Ind. II. 145 A horseman .. sprung from his horse, and, without quitting the bridle, rushed into the tent. 6. To cease, stop, discontinue (doing something). Now U.S. X7S4 in Picton Vpool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 166 Persons who rent seats., after they quitt sitting in them [etc.]. 1837 W. IRVING Capt. Bonneville II. 165 They followed on his trail, nor quit hovering about him . . until [etc.]. 1882 A. E. SWEET Sk. Texas Si/tings 62 The dog-catchers have quit going their rounds. b. absol. Also U.S. with off. a 1641 SUCKLING Why so pale and-wan ii Quit ! quit for shame ! this will not move. 1753 H. WALPOLE Lett. (1833) III. 25 It is I, that will not act with such fellows .. if they are kept, I will quit ; and if the Bishop is dismissed, I will quit too. 1868 Morning^Star jo Mar., The good old maxim for speech-makers, ' Quit when you've done . 1894 Chicago Advance x Mar., I don't see how you ever made up your mind to quit off [from study], 7. To leave, go away or depart from (a place or to part or separate from Thou . . had notice to quit, I fear, before thou wert quite ready (a thing). to abandon this fleshly tenement. o. absol. To go away. dial, and U.S. 1839 MARRYAT Diary Amer. Ser. I. II. 231 Clear out, quit, and put all mean ' be off'. 1850 LYELL 2nd Visit U. S. II. 99 No sooner was I . . engaged than all the other workmen quitted. 1883 STEVENSON Silverado Sy. 146 He rose at once, and said, .he reckoned he would quit. 8. intr. To quit with, to part with or from. rare. 1635 SHIRLEY Traitor t. i, If You can find dispensation to quit with Amidea, . . be confident Oriana may be won. 1816 SCOTT Old Mart, viii, Ye hae preached twenty punds out o' the Laird's pocket that he likes as ill to quit wi'. 9. trans. To remove ; to put, take, or send away (also with dat of person) ; to dismiss. Now rare. 1575 TURBERV. Fmtlconric 364 This medicine, .cureth and quitteth the mangie. 1598 BARRET Theor. Warra 116 Having quited and depriued them the preheminence to elect Captaines. 1625 MASSINGER New U'ay 11. iii, I'll quit you From my employments. 1649 EVELYN Afttn,(i&5j) III. 45 The small intelligence come to us., would have you ?uitted this trouble. 1755 J. SHEBBEARE Lydia (1769) . 361 Miss Arabella . . took it out again, without quitting her hand from it. 1847 Infantry Man. (1854) 38 Quit the left hand smartly to the left side. II. 1O. To repay, reward, requite (a person with some return for something done). Obs. exc. north, dial, (in phr. God etc. quite, white, twite"). Generydes 6975 Thus quyte he them that were to hym so Itynd. 1530 LD. BERNERS Artk. Lyt. Brjit. (1814) 178 Syth he had done me one displeasure, I shall quite him agayne with two. 1576 WOOLTON Chr. Manual Ci, Let vs not with like thanks quite almightye God for his greate benefyts bestowed vppon vs. 1599 MASSINGER, etc. Old Law if. ii, when I visit, 1 come comfortably, And look to be so quited. 1664 BUTLER Hud. H. i. 448, I understand .. how to quit you your own way. 1691 RAY N. C. Words, White, ' to requite ; as, God white you '. 1790 MRS. WHEELER Westmld. Dial. (1839) 16 Odd white.. Justice an king teea, for meaakin sic laas. flL To make a return to (a person) for (something done, a benefit or injury received, etc.). Obs. a 1300 Cursor M. 4422 111 es pe quit J?i god seruis ! 1:1320 Sir Trislr. 2258 Je quite him iuel his swink. c 1386 CHAUCER Manciple's T. 189 O false theef ! . . I wol thee quite anon thy false tale ! c 1440 Partonopc 1554 His kyndenes so he wole hym quyte. 1509 BARCLAY 6Vy/ of Folys (1570) i?i God shall thee heare, and quite thee thy trauayle. 1548 W. PATTEN Expcd. Scot. Pref. a ij, Since we soo quyt theym their kyndnes, and departed so title in their det. b. With omission of : personal object To repay, make a return for (something done to or for one). CI3SO Will. Palerne 325 Alle pi frendes fordedes faire schalstow quite, r 1420 Citron. Vilod. 1187 His trauelle shalle be ryjt welle y-quytte. c 1470 Gol. J- Caw. itoi As I am cristynit perfite, I sail thi kyndnes quyte. a 1533 LD. BERNERS Huon liv. 183, I shall quyte your mockes. c 1586 C'TESS PEMBROKE Ps. cxxxvu. iv, Thou, O Lord, will not forgett To quit the paines of Edoms race. 1607 TOURNEUR Rev. Trag. v. iii, The rape of your good Lady has been quited. a 1631 T. TAYLOR Gods Judgem. i. i. ix. (1642) 199 On this manner was the Duke of Orleance death quitted. 1850 BLACKIE sEschyliis I. 137 Like quit with like, and harm with harm repay. 1879 SIR E. ARNOLD Lt. Asia v. xxvii, If I attain I will return and quit thy love. t c. To be a return or equivalent for, to balance ; esp. in phr. to quit (the) cost. Obs. c 1420 Pallad. on //us/', i. 185 A litel tiled wel will quyte expence. c 1440 Generydes 5700 On good turne another quytith. 1523 FITZHERB. ffusi. 14 The roughe otes be the worst e, and it quiteth not the coste to sowe them. 1608-11 BP. HALL Epist. i. viiL Wks. (1627) 288 Nothing can quite the cost and labour of trauell but the gaine of wisdome. 1646 J. GREGORY Notes
QUTTCLAIMANCE. 2. To renounce, resign, give up (a possession, claim, right, pursuit, etc.). 13. . Caw. $ Cr. Knt. 293, 1 quit clayme hit for euer, kepe hit as his auen. c 1400 Sege Jerus. (E. E. T. S.) 28/504 |>at querel y quik cleyme. 1480 Bury Wills (Camden) 66 To reles and quyteclayme all their right, title, and interest in the seid maner. 1508 DUNBAR Flyting 62 Quytclame clergie, and cleik to the ane club. 1560 ROLLAND Crt. Venus n. 741 For ay mirth clenlie I quitclame. 1639 DRUM M. OF HAWTH. Mem. State Wks. (1711) 130 Whether a subject may .. give over and quit-claim all right and title [etc.]. 1760 T. HUTCHINSON Hist. Mass. (1765) I. 89 Having sold or quit, claimed.. a tract for a plantation. 1809 BAWDWEN Domesday Bk. 2 The land .. which Hugo the Sheriff quitclaimed to Walcherus. 1885 W. Ross Aberdour ^ Inchcolme ii. 39 He quitclaims the land of Leyis to the Monastery. b. With quit taken as verb. Const, to. a 1706 HOWE in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xii. 4 We must quit claim to ourselves and look on God as our owner. 1809 R. LANGFORD Introd. Trade 108, 1, A. B. . . having remisseo, released, and for ever quit claim to C. D. . . of all , . debts. 1886 Fox BOURNE Eng. Merchants I. 66 Having.. remitted and quitted claim to the king for all. .debts. Hence Quitclaiming vbl. sb. 1472-3 Rolls Parlt. VI. 45/1 For that knowelache, re- misyng, quiteclaymyng . . the seid William . . graunted . . the seid maners. t Quitclaimance. Obs. rare- 1 . In 4 quiteclamance. [a. AF. qiiiteclamance, -aunce (Britton, etc.).] = QUITCLAIM sb. R. c 1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. (1810) 186 Of bat . . Philip Mad a quite clamance {so in Laagtoft\ fro him & alle hise. Quite (kwsit), adv. Forms : 4-6 quit, quyte, 5 Sc. quhyt, 5-6 quyt, 6 quyght, 6-7 quight, 4- quite, [f. quite QUIT a.] I. Completely, wholly, altogether, entirely to ; the fullest extent or degree. 1. With verbs, esp. in the pa. pple., denoting the thorough completion of the action, f Formerly also in phr. quite and clean : see CLEAN adv. 6. c 1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. (1810) 45 Lyndessie he destroied quite alle bidene. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints iv. (James) 288 In be entent pat bai suld have bene qiiyt schent. a 1529 SKELTON Phyllyp Sparavje 706 Comfort had he none For she was quyte gone. 1560 DAUS tr. Sleidane's Comm. esp. in phr. quite another (thing, question, etc.) ; occas. with intervening prep. (cf. 2). 1626 BACON Sylva 125 For the Impression of the Sound, It is quite another Thing. 1657 W. RAND tr. GasscmUs Life Peiresc n. 262 Trees, quite of another kind. 1664 VOL. VIII. 73 Pms^Dlary III. 91 The comet .. is gone quite to a new place in the heavens. 1679 PENN Addr. Prat. u. 146 That's quite another thing than being certain. 1716 DAVIES A then. Brit. II. 401 Which was quite the reverse in those two. .Prelates. 1751 R. PALTOCK /'. Wilkins (1883) II. 194 That I did first was quite of a different colour from the leaf. 1810 BENTHAM Offic, Apt. Maximized, De/. Econ. (1830) 52 Any such accidental display is quite another business. 1845 M. PATTISON Ess. (1889) I. 16 For quite another reason. II. Actually, really, truly, positively (implying that the case or circumstances are such as fully justify the use of the word or phrase thus qualified). 4. With adjs. or pa. pples., and derived advbs. 1742 RICHARDSON Pamela (i&ii) III. 311 They tell meshe's . . quite smart and handsome. 1749 FIELDING Tom Jones xni. v, The widow, quite charmed with her new lodger, invited him .. to breakfast. 1805 EMILY CLARK Banks of Doiiro I. 248 She felt, .so perturbed .. that she was quite ill and restless. 1834 BECKFORD Italy I. 326 The gallery immediately before its entrance appeared quite gay. 1848 HERSCHEL Ess. (1857) 342 A ship sailing northwards passes quite suddenly from cold into hot water. 1871 RUSKIN Fors Clav. iii. 17 You would observe .. the quite Anglican character of Richard. b. Preceding the indef. article. 1756 TOLDERVY Hist. 2 Orphans III. 49 It is quite a (1865) J. 403 Up to quite a recent pei Lett. (1870) 184 They are quite a large party in Edinburgh. 1884 Manch. Exam. 3 May 6/1 At quite an early hour. c. Coupled with too. 1763 C. JOHNSTON Reverie I. 137 Your offer is quite too low. 1782 Miss BURNEY Cecilia VII. i. (1893) 269 Going to Mr. Harrel's again would have been quite too dismal. 1843 J. MARTINEAU Chr. Life (1867) 14 Presenting the Creator to us in a relation quite too mean. 1882 H. C. MERIVALE Faucet of B. III. ii. xii. 47, 1 quite too awfully near put my foot in it ! d. With superlatives. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 882/1 The auditorium is quite the largest in the world. 5. With substantives preceded by a, or rn.pl. c 1586 C'TESS PEMBROKE Ps. LXIX. iv, To my kynn a stranger quite, Quite an alien am I grown. 1737 POPE Hor. Sat. n. vi._i46 Something .. quite a scandal not to learn. Ep. i. i. 50 Far from a Lynx, and not a Giant quite. 1762 LLOYD Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 183 It's quite a journey to come here. 1806-7 J- BERESFORD Miseries Hum. Life I. 291 That must have been quite a scene. 1840 THACKERAY Catherine i, There's many a girl in the village that at my age is quite chits. 1896 T. F. TOUT Edw. /, iv. 79 A daughter., who died when quite a child. b. With sbs. preceded by the (also with adj.). 1762 GOLDSM. Cit. W. Ixxvii, It [silk] is at once rich, tasty, and quite the thing. 1799 COLERIDGE Lett. (1895) 277 Pipes are quite the rage. 1803 in Spirit' Put. jrnls. VII. 20 Quite the 'tippy for the boxes. 1865 Sat. Rev. July 14 The Chancellor is not quite the right man for his . . place. 1888 Poor Nellie 114 It was quite the thing to be in love. 6. With verbs (= 'to go as far as', 'to do as much as"). 1770 ELIZ. CARTER Lett., to Mrs. Montagii II. 67, I quite longed for you to share my admiration of it. 1819 Metropolis I._ 213 Lady Mildew . . quite haunts us. Ibid. 249 A certain upstart commoner, .quite made love to me. 1848 J. H. NEWMAN Loss fit Gain 192 A great personage .. quite scoffed at their persisting to hold it. 1866 G. MACDONALD Ann. Q. Neighb. xiii. (1878) 285 You can't quite believe there is a God at all. 7. With prep, phrases or advbs. 273 b, All that was there begonne, was quite dasshed. 1590 SPENSER F. Q. in. v. 41 His foule sore . . she reduced, but himselfe destroyed quight. 1603 KNOLLES Hist. Turks (162,1) 204 For now was the Greeke Emperour. .quite driuen put of the lesser Asia. 1630 PRYNNE Anti-Armin. 133 That I may quite vnuaile the hidden mysteries of this vniuersal grace. 1700 S. L. tr. Fryke's Voy. E. Ind. 57 We found our selves forced to Intrench, lest they should have routed us quite. 1785 REID Wks. (1863) I. 67/2 My distemper is almost quite gone. 1859 M. ARNOLD Southern Night in Poems (1869) I. 218 Thy memory, thy pain, tonight .. Possess me quite. 1880 JEFFERIES Gt. Estate 59 Haws, .which often quite cover the hawthorn bushes. 2. With prepositional or adverbial phrases. ciyi$Sc. Leg. Saints xxxiv. (Pelagia) 124 It .. flaw vpe quyt in be ayre. 1440 Generydes 3048 It ranne down quyte thorough the harnes. 1470-85 MALORY Arthur x, Ixxix, He smote hym doune quyte from his hors. 1545 BRINKLOW Compl. 28 b, He bracke it quyte in pecys. 1551 ROBINSON tr. Mare's Utop. i. (1895) 112 That is .. quyte out of remembraunce. a 1600 HOOKER Serm. Sorrow
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