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• discharge (v.):

I. To unburden: exŏnĕro, exĭnānio: v. to empty, unload.
II. To emit from the body: Phr.: to d. urine, urinam edere, Plin.: to d. (bring up) blood, sanguinem reddere, Plin. (v. to vomit): a fountain d.s itself at the foot of the dark oak, fons nigra sub ilice manat, Ov. Fig.: to d. one's anger upon any one, iram in aliquem evomere, Cic.: v. to vent.
III. Of rivers; to cast themselves into the sea, etc.:

1. ēmitto, 3 (in pass. or with pron. refl.): the Rhine d.s itself into the sea between, etc., Rhodanus emittitur inter ..., Mela.
2. effundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3 (used as preced.): the Ganges d.s itself into the Eastern ocean, Ganges se in Eoum oceanum ef., Plin.: Mela.
3. exeo, 4, irr.: to d. itself by seven mouths, per septem portus exire, Ov.: Val. Fl. Simly, ire, Virg. A. 1, 246.
4. ēgrĕdior, gressus, 3: Mela.
5. ēvolvo, vi, ūtum, 3 (used as 1, 2): Mela.

IV. To let fly:

1. mitto, mīsi, missum, 3: to d. javelins, pila m., Caes.: Ov.
2. ēmitto, 3: to d. javelins, pila e., Caes.
3. immitto, 3 (at some one): to d. javelins, missiles, at any one, tela, pila, in aliquem im., Caes.: Cic.
4. injĭcio, jēci, jectum, 3 (like immitto): Hirt.
5. conjĭcio, 3 (of a number of persons): to d. (their) missiles against our men, tela in nostros c., Caes.

V. To free or dismiss:

1. dīmitto, 3: v. to disband: to d. a creditor, creditorem d., Papin. Dig.
2. exauctōro, 1 (military: in later authors, such as Plin. jun., to dismiss from the service in disgrace): Liv.: Just.
3. missum facio, 3: I d. you, vos missos facio, Auct. B. Afr.: Suet. Phr.: to d. superannuated soldiers, fessos aetate sacramento solvere, Tac.: to d. a gladiator, (gladiatorem) rude donare (= exauctorare), Hor.

VI. To settle: solvo, exsolvo, persolvo: v. to pay.
VII. To perform:

1. fungor, functus, 3 (with abl.): to d. the office of aedile, aedilitate f., Cic.: to d. the bodily functions, muneribus corporis f., Cic.: v. to perform.
2. perfungor, 3 (to d. in full): to d. duties in the state, reipublicae muneribus p., Cic.
3. ŏbeo, īvi and ĭi, ĭtum, 4: to d. consular duties, consularia munera ob., Liv.: Just.: to d. recognisances, vadimonium obire, Cic.: v. to execute. See also to fulfil.

VIII. Intrans.: to run, as does a sore: māno, 1: Plin. 23, 6, 60: v. to run.

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I. The act of emptying
II. A letting-fly
1. ēmissio
2. conjectio
3. conjectus, ūs
III. Dismissal or liberation from service
1. missio
2. dīmissio
3. exauctōrĭtas (a barbarous word)
4. excūsātio (legal)
IV. Quittance
1. acceptĭlātio
2. lībĕrātio
3. absŏlūtio
V. Settlement
VI. Execution
VII. Purulent matter
VIII. A running from a sore

• discharge (subs.):

I. The act of emptying: exŏnĕrātio, exĭnānītio: v. evacuation.
II. A letting-fly:

1. ēmissio: d.s of stones, lapidum emissiones, Cic.: Gell.
2. conjectio: a d. of missiles, telorum c., Cic.
3. conjectus, ūs: Liv. (Or expr. by verb: to receive the enemy with d.s of missiles, *telis missis excipere hostes: v. to discharge.)

III. Dismissal or liberation from service:

1. missio: to be rewarded by a d., praemium missionis ferre, Caes.: to purify the army by the d. of mutinous men, exercitum purgare missionibus turbulentorum hominum, Liv.: the regular d., m. honesta, Dig.: d. on medical certificate, etc., m. causaria, Dig.: d. from favouritism, m. gratiosa: Liv.: d. as a punishment, m. ignominiosa, Dig.
2. dīmissio: d. of rowers, d. remigum, Cic.: v. dismissal.
3. exauctōrĭtas (a barbarous word): Cod. Theod.
4. excūsātio (legal): d. from a guardianship, tutelae ex., Ulp.: v. exemption. Phr.: to grant a legion its d., missam facere legionem, Suet.: to receive one's d. (of a gladiator), rudem accipere, Cic.: to grant the same, rude donare, Hor.: a soldier having or entitled to have his d., missicius, Ulp.: Suet.: v. disabled.

IV. Quittance:

1. acceptĭlātio: Ulp.
2. lībĕrātio: to leave (in a will) a debtor his d. (from liability), liberationem debitori legare, Ulp.
3. absŏlūtio: v. acquittal.

V. Settlement: sŏlūtio: v. payment.
VI. Execution: perfunctio (rare): the d. of high public offices, honorum p., Cic.: v. performance.
VII. Purulent matter: pūs, pūris, n.: Plin. Phr.: full of d., pūrŭlentus, Plin.
VIII. A running from a sore: expr. by verb: if there is a d. from the sore, si manat ulcus, si quid de ulcere manat: v. to discharge (VIII.).

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• DISCHARGE

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).

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.

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