All 7 Uses of
omit
in
Moby Dick
- But I omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.†
Chpt 40-42
- Be all this as it may, his voice was now often heard hailing the three mast-heads and admonishing them to keep a bright look-out, and not omit reporting even a porpoise.†
Chpt 46-48
- But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that tiger-yellow crew of his—these were words best omitted here; for you live under the blessed light of the evangelical land.†
Chpt 46-48
- It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded.†
Chpt 70-72
- Now, I consider that the phrenologists have omitted an important thing in not pushing their investigations from the cerebellum through the spinal canal.†
Chpt 79-81
- Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
to exclude or neglect something