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What does pretermit mean?

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  1. To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's comment; to omit or fail to carry out something; to prematurely terminate or interrupt something.
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What precisely is meant by 'ideal' is a question which for the moment I pretermit.
We pretermit events more or less irritating to follow the urbane Englishman.
I have been led farther than I had foreseen, and various subjects for annotation have presented themselves which, though I have no direct need of them, I could not pretermit.
Then there are all manner of the ordinary maladies of humanity, which I pretermit.
Here follow in Mr. Plush's MS. about twenty-four pages of railroad calculations, which we pretermit.
But all will be expected, in the ensuing term, to proceed to those which they now pretermit.

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