Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-MISS', v.t. [L. dimissus, dimitto; di, dis, and mitto, to send; Fr. demettre.]

1. To send away; properly, to give leave of departure; to permit to depart; implying authority in a person to retain or keep. The town clerk dismissed the assembly. – Acts xix.
2. To discard; to remove from office, service, or employment. The king dismisses his ministers; the master dismisses his servant; and the employer his workmen. Officers are dismissed from service, and students from college.
3. To send; to dispatch. He dismissed ambassadors from Pekin to Tooshoo Loomboo. [Improper.] – Encyc.
4. To send or remove from a docket; to discontinue; as, to dismiss a bill in chancery.