Word Meanings - EMISSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

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• SENDAL
  A light thin stuff of silk. Chaucer. Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver Sir W. Scott. (more info) LL. cendallum, Gr.
• EMITTENT
  Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.
• EMISSIVE
  Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.
• SEND
  Icel. senda, Sw. sända, Dan. sende, Goth. sandjan, and to Goth. sinp a time , gasinpa companion, OHG. sind journey, AS. si, Icel. sinni a walk, journey, a time. W. hynt a way, journey, OIr. 1. To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch;
• SENDER
  One who sends. Shak.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• RESEND
  To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater. (more info) 1. To send again; as, to resend a message. 2. To send back; as, to resend a gift. Shak.
• IRREMISSIVE
  Not remitting; unforgiving.
• REMITTEE
  One to whom a remittance is sent.
• REMITTAL
  A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.
• UNREMITTING
  Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. Cowper. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ness, n.
• DISENDOWMENT
  The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.
• UPSEND
  To send, cast, or throw up. As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
• REMITTITUR
  A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages. A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton.
• MISSEND
  To send amiss or incorrectly.
• REMITTENT
  Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. Remittent fever , a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.
• REMITTANCE
  1. The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation. 2. The sum or thing remitted. Addison.
• DEMISSIVE
  Downcast; submissive; humble. They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord .
• DISENDOW
  To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.
• GODSEND
  Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.