DISCHARGE Copy link • DISCHARGE 1. Emission of a fluid, effluvium (the flowing out; e.g., humoris ex corpore, Plin.): profluvium (the flowing forth; e.g., sanguinis; alvi, etc.): fluxio (classical, Freund; of blood from the nose, sanguinis e naribus, Plin.; from the eyes, oculorum, Plin.). Dismissal, missio (the proper word, of soldiers; Obs., missio gratiosa, as a favor; honesta, after the full time of service, causaria, on account of illness, infirmity, etc.; justa or injusta, with or without good reasons, ignominiosa, as a disgrace): dimissio (of servants or soldiers). To give anybody his discharge, dimittere aliquem; missionem dare alicui; exauctorare aliquem (exauctorare was used, in the times of the empire, of soldiers who had served but 16 years at most; mittere, etc., of those who had served 20 years or more; Vid: Tac., Ann., 1, 36: comp. Bremi, Suet., Oct., 24): aliquem militia or sacramento solvere: to give anybody his discharge as a mark of disgrace, cum ignominia dimittere aliquem; aliquem ignominiae causa removere ab exercitu: to receive one’s discharge, dimitti; missio datur alicui; militia or sacramento solvi: to demand one’s discharge, missionem postulare or exposcere; missionem efflagitare (in a violent manner): to apply for one’s discharge, missionem rogare. Discharge of artillery, etc., emissio (e.g., tormenta telorum emissiones habent, Cic.); or circumlocution by *tormentum (or -a) mittere or emittere: discharges of artillery in honour of anybody, *tormenta honoris causa emissa: to salute anybody with discharges of artillery, *tormenta honoris causa emittere (to fire a salute). Discharge in consequence of an acquittal, absolutio (general term, with genitive of the charge): liberatio (the act of freeing, or the being freed). 2. v. TRANS., Unload, exonerare (e.g., a ship’s cargo, exonerare navem or navigium; ☞ but exinanire navemis an opprobrious expression; exonerare plaustrum): exinanire (to empty; navem, used opprobriously, Cic.; onustum vehiculum, Plin.). IMPROPR. (α) To pay; to discharge a debt, aes alienum solvere or dissolvere; aere alieno exire: to discharge debts, debita solvere; nomina dissolvere, exsolvere, expedire: to discharge a debt by taking up money, versura solvere or dissolvere: to discharge one’s debts, liberare se sere alieno: to discharge his debts wholly or in part, liberare aut levare se aere alieno: to call upon anybody to discharge a debt, nomen exigere: to discharge the debt of nature, debitum naturae reddere: to discharge the debt we owe to our country, solvo patriae, quod debeo. (β) To perform a duty, get rid of an obligation; to discharge a duty, officium praestare, or facere, or exsequi: to discharge every particular of one’s duty, nullam officii partem deserere [more under DUTY]; officio suo fungi; officio suo satisfacere (seldom, and not in Cic., explore officium; implere officii sui partes): to discharge a duty conscientiously, *munere sibi delato religiose fungi: not to discharge a duty, officio suo deesse; deserere officii sui partes; ab officio suo decedere, recedere: to discharge a commission, mandatum conficere, perficere, peragere, exsequi, persequi: in the most accurate manner, exhaurire mandatum. (γ) To let off a gun, etc., telum mittere, emittere, permittere (the last, so as to hit the mark): to discharge guns, tormenta mittere or emittere (☞ tormenta bellica explodere or displodere, not Latin): to discharge an arrow, sagittam expellere arcu (†). Dismiss (a soldier), aliquem militia or sacramento solvere; aliquem exauctorare; aliquem dimittere (general term, soldiers or servants): to ask to be discharged, missionem postulare. To DISCHARGE ITSELF (of rivers, etc.); in mare effundi, or se effundere; in mare fluere or effluere; in mare erumpere: in mare, etc., sese exonerare (Plin.). 3. INTRANS., A wound discharges, pus exit, effluit, or effunditur ex vulnere.