Suppose there is not, he dismisses the case "on the merits" and the trial is over.
If the judge does not believe that the plaintiff has stated a case in law, he dismisses it on a motion of the defendant and the judgment is "without prejudice.
When the judge dismisses the case, he is saying that the facts may be so and what happened may be truly stated, but even then it does not make any difference.
Depart, then, satisfied, for he who dismisses thee is satisfied.
The same as if a prætor who has employed an actor dismisses him from the stage.
He criticises their objections, and finally dismisses them as untenable.
Then begging the cloud, after delivering his message, to return with reassuring news, the exile finally dismisses him with the hope that he may never, even for a moment, be divided from his lightning spouse.
THE KING (after a moment's hesitation, dismisses Marion with a gesture without looking at her).
When the space is opened, he orders them to hang black cloth across it, which covers it entirely; then he dismisses them.
Concluding that this queer impression of Esther is through some striking similarity between the looks of a passer-by and those of that unfortunate youth now no more, Sir Donald dismisses the subject.
With such sentiment Sir Donald dismisses all idea of quitting this search.
He has nothing of consequence to say on mining, and dismisses concentration with a few words.
He dismisses this statement of Pliny with the remark (p.
As if I were a lowborn wench instead of the daughter and wife of noble men; this woman, half a child still, scarcely yet nineteen, dismisses me from her service before you and all her ladies every ten days!
Every sentence with which he dismisses a refractory subordinate is a nut of which the shell must be cracked in order to get at the kernel.
She dismisses the legend itself--what it was does not matter here--as quite unworthy of credence.
She dismisses nuptial quarrels, presumably resulting from infidelities, with graceful languor; perhaps reserving such as are within the pale, sanctioned by titles.
But the memory of the past years is too strong to allow belief that the thing will last--it is dismissed as a passing nightmare, as the nurse by the bedside of fever dismisses the wanderings of delirium.
To dismiss the old relief, it is halted and faced to the front at the guardhouse by the corporal of the new relief, who then falls out; the corporal of the old relief then steps in front of the relief and dismisses it by the proper commands.
The officer then reports the result of the roll call to the adjutant or officer of the day, returns to the company, inspects the arms, and dismisses it.
The Swiss father dismisses his daughter to teach in a school at Paris or London, and his sons to commerce or war.
The Duke can do no other than decide against the poet, whom he dismisses to his apartment with the injunction that he is there to consider himself, for the present, a prisoner.
Juno desires on this account to close the day, and dismisses the Sun prematurely to his rest.
Telemachus apprehends that, if hedismisses his mother, he will have to encounter, among other evils, the Erinuës whom she will invoke upon him.
Nor need we consider it to be at all shaken by slight and formal allusions, or by the words in which Homer on his own part dismisses to Hades the spirit of the slain Hector[419].
O, Monseigneur, merely angelically acrobatic," said Spaghetti with a touch of reverence that was reverberating.
On the way, in crossing a river, she loses the ring, and when she confronts the king he fails to remember her and dismisses her ignominiously.
Jowett perhaps dismisses this story somewhat too curtly as "silly and obscene"; but it certainly is far from being a love-story in the modern sense of the word, though its moral tone is doubtless superior to that of the other Greek romances.
He dismisses any reference to the subject of the "driving force of a mighty and unselfish purpose," with the moderate and sensible opinion, that the "prospect of Kansas becoming a Free state is brightening every day.
Wotan catches her, and as a punishment dismisses her from her post as a Valkyrie.
That superior quickness of women, which Darwin dismisses so lightly as something belonging to savage epochs, is to Buckle the sign of a quality which he holds essential, not only to literature and art, but to science itself.
Teacher of the world' and 'Tecsiviracocha,' which Garcilasso dismisses as meaningless.
He takes his stand on the uniformity of all experience that is not hostile to his idea of the possible, and dismisses all testimony to other experience, even when it reaches his standard of evidence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dismisses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
