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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 de·mit /dɪˈmɪt/
 (vt.)(vi.)辭職

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 De·mit v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Demitting.]
 1. To let fall; to depress. [R.]
    They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [=\i. e., their train].\=   --Sir T. Browne.
 2. To yield or submit; to humble; to lower; as, to demit one's self to humble duties. [R.]
 3. To lay down, as an office; to resign. [Scot.]
    General Conway demitted his office.   --Hume.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 De·mit v. i.  To lay down or relinquish an office, membership, authority, or the like; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge; -- generally used with an implication that the act is voluntary.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 De·mit, n. The act of demitting; also, a letter, certificate, or the like, certifying that a person has (honorably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.