I. A sending in different directions, a sending out, sending forth (very rare): “dimissiones libertorum ad faenerandas provincias,” Cic. Par. 6, 2, 46: “sanguinis,” i. e. blood-letting, Gell. 10, 8 in lemm.—*
II. A dismissing, discharging: “propugnatorum atque remigum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 86.—