Ends someone's employment or removes them from a position; rejects an idea as unimportant or false; or tells someone to go away or leave.
Third-person singular present tense of dismiss, from Old French desmiss, from Late Latin dismissus, past participle of dimittere (dis- 'apart' + mittere 'to send').
The literal meaning of 'dismiss' is 'send away'—dis- meaning 'apart' and mittere meaning 'send'—so when a judge 'dismisses' a case, they're literally 'sending it away,' a metaphor that's been active in English for nearly 600 years.
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