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REMISSION, inPhyficks, the Abatement of- the Power or Efficacy of any Quality ; in opposition to the Increafe of the Same, which is call'd its Intenfon. See Intension.

In all Qualities capable of Intention and Remijjion, thelntenlion decreases as the Squares of the Diftance from the Centre of Acti- on reciprocally. See Quality.

Remission, in Medicine, is; when a Distemper abates, but does not go quite oft, before it returns again; as it is com- mon in Fevers which do no: quite intermit. See Fever..

Remission, in Law, &c. the Pardon of a Crime* or the gi- ving up the Punifhment due thereto. See Pardon.

REMIT, in Commerce. — To remit a Sum of Money, Bill, or the like, is to fend a Sum of Money, &c. See Remit- tance.

To remit is alio ufed among Bankers for what is accuftomed to be given a Banker, or as it were, difcounted with him, for his giving a Bill of Exchange. See Exchange.

To remit is alfo to give up Part of his Due to a Debtor ; as, I would remit you a fourth of what you owe on Condition of pay- ing me the reft in Hand.

REMITTANCE, in Commerce, the Traffic or Return of Money from one Place to another, in Bills of Exchange, Orders, or the like. See Commerce, Exchange, &c.

The Remittance is properly a Bill of Exchange, or the like, fent to a Correspondent, and the Content thereof to be rcceiv'd by him, of fome other Petfon on whom it is drawn.

Such a Merchant has remitted, or made a Remittance of five thoufand Pounds in Bank Notes, to his Correfpondent at Urn- don. — I will remit you, or make you ^Remittance of five hundred Crowns in three Bills of Exchange, drawn on N. Banker in your City, and payable atSight.

By means of thefe Remittances, large Sums of Money arc re- turn'd from one City to another, without Danger, without Car- riage, &c.

In London 'tis eafy getting Remittances upon any City in the World: In the Country 'tis more difficult. Remittances are not calily had upon Copenhagen. See Bill of Exchange.

Remittance, is alio, ufed in {peaking of the Payment of. a Bill of Exchange. — Thus, I have receiv'd an hundred Piftoles on your Remittance.— Mr. N. Banker in your City, fhould have paid you two hundred Crowns on my Remittance.

Remittance, is alfo the Due or Fee allow'd the Banker, both for his Wages, the Tare of Money, and the different Value of the Species, in the Place where you pay the Money, and where he remits it.

The Remittance at London is very high. — This Remittance is more ulually call'd Change and Rechange, which fee.

REMITTER, in Law.— Where a Man has two Titles to Land, and is feized by the latter; and that proving Defective, he is remitted or reftored to the former more antient Title : This is call'd a Remitter, from the Latin, remittere, to fend back.

If Land defcend to him that had Right to it before, he fliall be remitted to his better Title if he pleafe. Doctor and Student.

REMONSTRANCE, an Expostulation or humble Sup- plication addrefs'd to a King, or other Superior; to beieech him to reflect on the Inconveniences, or ill Confequences of fome Order, Edict, &c.

The Parliament is gone in a Body to make humble Remon- firances to the King, on the fubjedt of fuch a Declaration.

Remonstrance, is alfo ufed for an expoftulatory Council or Advice; or a gentle, handfome Reproof, made either in general or particular, to apprize or to correct fome Fault — A Mother makes Remonftrances to her Daughter, &c.

REMONSTRANTS, Remonsrantes, was a Title given the Arminians, by reaion of the Remonftrances they made in 1610, againit the Synod of Dart, wherein they were condemn'd. See Arminian.

Epifcopms and Grotius were at the Head of the Remonfirants. See Contra-Remonstrants.

REMORA, in Natural Hiftory, a little Fifh, refembling a Herring, with Creit and Fins ; call'd by the Greeks, Echeneis.

'Tis much talk'd of by the Antients; who, as we 6nd from Pliny, lib. 32. unanimously believ'd it had the force to flop a Veflel in full Sail ; and hence call'd it Remora, a remoranao.— But the Moderns hold it a Fiction ; inafmuch as in all their Na- vigations, which are much more confiderable than thofe of the Antients, they have never met with any thing like it.

Remora, among Surgeons, is alfo an Instrument to fez bro- ken Bones withal. See Fracture.

REMOUNT, in War.— To remount the Cavalry, is to fur- nifli Troopers or Dragoons with frefh Horfes, in lieu of fuch as have been kill'd or difabled in the Service.

REMPLY, in Heraldry* fometbing filled up. The Term is chiefly uSed to denote that the Chief is quite filled up with a fquare Piece of another Colour, leaving only Border for the pro- per Colour of the Chief about the faid Piece.

RENAL, Something belonging to the Reins, or Kidneys, See Rein and Kidney.

RENALES Glandula, in Anatomy, are Glands thus call'd, be* caufe Situate near the Reins or Kidneys ; firft difcovered by Bar. Euflachio, Native of San Severino, in Italy. See Gland. \

They are alfo call'd Capfula Atrabilares ; in regard the Cavity

is always found full of a blackifh Liquor; arid by others, Reset Succenturiati, becaufe refembling the Reins in form. See Re- NE3 Succenturiati.

RENCOUNTER, the Encounter of two little Bodies or Parties of Forces ; In which Senle it is ufed in oppofition to Battel. — 'Twas no Battel; 'twas only a Rencounter.

In tingle Combats, Rencounter is ufed in oppofition to Duel. —When two Perfons fall-out, and fight on the Spot, without ha- ving premeditated the Combat, 'tis call'd a Rencounter.~T\s no Duel, 'tis a Rencounter. See Duel.

The Word is form'd from the Trench, Rencontre, meeting

Rencounter, or Rencontre, in Heraldry, is applied to Animals when cbey Shew the Head in Front, with both Eyes, &c. or the Face Hands right forward; as if they came to meet the Period before them.

Indeed in the Deer, this is cali'd Maffacrs, and in the Leopard 'tis the natural Situation.— He bears Sable, in Rencounter, a Gol- den Fleece.

RENDER, in Law, a Term ufed in levying a Fine. A Fine is either Single, whereby nothing is granted ; or with Ren- der, whereby Something is render d hack again, by the Cogniiee to theCognifjr; or double, which containeth a Grant, or re«~ der back again of fome Rent, Common, or ether tiling out of the Land it felt", to theCognifor. See Fine.

We alfo fay, there are certain thing* in a Manor which lie in Vrendcr, i.e. may betaken by the Lord or his Officers when they pleafe, without the Tenants leave: And others which lie in Ren- der, that is, muft be render d or anfwer'd by the Tenant ; as Rents, Reliefs, Fleriors, and other Services. See Prendir.

Some Service conliits in Seifance; fome in Render. Perkins,

RENDERING, in Building. See Pargetting.

RENDEZ-tww, a Place appointed to meet in at a certain Day and Hour.

The Word is French', and is found fo handy, that molt Na- tions ufe it in its Purity, for want of a Word of equal import in their refpedtive Languages.

A general Rendezvous of the Army The Regiments have

their particular Rendezvous, call'd Quarters of Afjembly. See Quarter.

The Virtue of a Woman is already Shaken when She gives a Rendezvous. St. Evremond.

RENEGATE, Renegado, a Perfon who has apoftatrzed or renounced the Christian Faith, ro embrace Some other Religion j particularly Mahometanilm. See Apostate.

'Tis the Renegado's who prove the moSt barbarous to the Chri- stians when they fall into their Hands.

The Renegate is thus called, auafi re-negat-Chrifum. — Hoveden mentions it in the Year 1 192, under the Name of Reneer, from the French, re-nier, to deny again.

RENES Succenturiati, in Ana omy, are Glands thus called as refembling the Figure of the Reins; and hence accounted a kind of jecojzdary Reins; Succenturiatus Signifying Something in the Place of another. See Succenturiati.

They are alfo called CapJuU Renalcs, and GlanduU Renaks. See Renales.

RENEWING of Leafes and Lives. See Reversion, An- nuity, Political Arithnetick, &c

RENITENCY, Renitentia, among Philofophcrs, that Force in folic! Bodies, whereby they reSiit the Impulic of other Bodies; or react as much as they are acted on. See Reaction. See alio Resistance.

RENT, in Law, a Sum of Money, or other Confederation iffuing yearly out of Lands and Tenements, alienated on that Condition. See Revenue.

It is thus called from the corrupt Latin, Rendita, for reddita of redditus; becaufe, as F/eta tells us, rctroit & auotanms redit.

The Rents of all the Lands of England and Wales appear by - the Computations of Dr. Davevant, :.nd Mr. King, from the late Land-Tax, to be nearly 10 Millions per A?/num; thole of the Hollies not let with the Lands, to be two Millions more; and thofe of all other Hereditaments, to be two Millions more; in ail 14 Millions. See Revenue.

The Lawyers ordinarily reckon three forts of Rent; viz. Rent- Service, Rent-charge, and Rent-feck.

Beta-Service, is where a Man holds his Lands of his Lord by Fealty, and certain Rent; or by Fealty-Service, and certain Rent; or that which a Man making d.Leafe to another for Term of Years, referveth ytarly'to be paid for them. See Service Fealty, Reserve, $■?.

Rent-Charge, is where a Man makes over his Eflate to another by Deecf indented, either in Fee, or Fee-rail, or for Term of Life; yet refer ves to himfelf, by the fame Indenture, a Sum of Money yearly to be paid to him, with Caufe of Diftrefs for Non- payment.

Rent-feck, or Dry-Rent, is that which a Man making over his EStare by Deed indented, referveth yearly to be paid to him, without Caufe of Diitrefs mentioned in the Indenture. See Metegavel.

Rents of Ajfize, are the certain Rents of Freeholders, and antient Copyholders; thus called becaufe affiled and certain: In opposition to redditus mobiles.

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