to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage

‘Pinch and a punch for the first of the month.’ I nurse my wounded arm and look down at my giggling son. 'You just hit me.' 'No I didn't. That's what you do on the first of the month.' 'Who says so?' He looks at me exasperated.

This world I do renounce, and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.

I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.