Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cashiering"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cashier \Cash*ier"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cahiered}; p. pr. &vb.
n. {Cashiering}.] [Earlier cash, fr. F. casser to break,
annul, cashier, fr. L. cassare, equiv. to cassum reddere, to
annul; cf. G. cassiren. Cf. {Quash} to annul, {Cass}.]
1. To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with
ignominy from military service or from an office or place
of trust.

They have cashiered several of their followers.
--Addison.

He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord
lieutenant's own body guard. --Macaulay.

2. To put away or reject; to disregard. [R.]

Connections formed for interest, and endeared

By selfish views, [are] censured and cashiered.
--Cowper.

They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of
the words. --Sowth.

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