Cash*ier" (kăsh*ēr"),
n. [F. caissier, fr. caisse. See
Cash.] One who has charge of money; a cash keeper;
the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys,
checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
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.