Word Meanings - EXTRAMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sending out; emission. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to EXTRAMISSION)

• 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.
• 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;
• EMISSION
  1. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes. 2. That which is sent out,
• SENDER
  One who sends. Shak.
• DEMISSION
  1. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange. 2. Resignation of an office.
• 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.
• IRREMISSION
  Refusal of pardon.
• 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.
• DEMISSIONARY
  1. Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed. 2. Tending to lower, depress, or degrade.
• MISSEND
  To send amiss or incorrectly.
• DISENDOW
  To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.
• REMISSION
  A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement. 5. The act of sending back. Stackhouse. 6. Act
• GODSEND
  Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.
• PARDON; REMISSION
  -- Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon, and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back. The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has, in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness; but in the language of common life