--part1_0.3504dee5.259e14a3_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_0.3504dee5.259e14a3_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <gedavies@iamerica.net> Received: from rly-zd04.mx.aol.com (rly-zd04.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.228]) by air-zd05.mail.aol.com (v67.7) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:38:10 -0500 Received: from smtp2.mail.iamworld.net (smtp2-out.mail.iamworld.net [204.91.241.117]) by rly-zd04.mx.aol.com (v67.7) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:38:00 -0500 Received: from iamerica.net (1Cust64.tnt1.winnfield.la.da.uu.net [63.11.126.64]) by smtp2.mail.iamworld.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA102591 for <ShelbyTX@aol.com>; Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:39:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <386C40F4.E64D0B0E@iamerica.net> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:36:52 -0600 From: "Greggory E. Davies" <gedavies@iamerica.net> Organization: home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD47 (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ShelbyTX@aol.com Subject: Re: Fwd: Masonic terminology References: <0.4605b06a.259d988f@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ShelbyTX@aol.com wrote: > > --part1_0.4605b06a.259d988f_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > --part1_0.4605b06a.259d988f_boundary > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-path: CHenry8003@aol.com > From: CHenry8003@aol.com > Full-name: CHenry8003 > Message-ID: <0.1ddfaa90.259ccb38@aol.com> > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:50:32 EST > Subject: Masonic terminology > To: ShelbyTX@aol.com > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 44 > > Jane could you tell me what the word dimittee in masonic records mean? > Thanks, Mery Henry > > --part1_0.4605b06a.259d988f_boundary-- Dimit, or dimmit, or demit, or however one spells it, means to withdraw membership from a particular Masonic Lodge, for a specific period of time, but not to withdraw from Masonry altogether. This was very common in the old days when a Mason would move across country. As communication methods were so poor, he would simply withdraw his membership from a Lodge, for instance in North Carolina, and head west, and when he settled, present his dimit, dimmit, demit, etc., to a new Lodge, and petition for afilliation there. This is normally not done nowadays. A Mason usually applies for a plural or dual membership in a second Lodge and might eventually withdraw his membership from the previous one. Gregg --part1_0.3504dee5.259e14a3_boundary--