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.

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.

To send; to dispatch. He dismissed embassadors from Pekin to Tooshoo Loomboo.

To send or remove from a docket; to discontinue; as, to dismiss a bill in chancery.

Discharge; dismission.