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missive

noun
/ˈmɪsɪv/UK

Etymology

15th century; from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).

  1. borrowed from missīvus

Definitions

  1. A written message

    A written message; a letter, note or memo.

    • [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
    • The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test[…]

  2. Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.

  3. One who is sent

    One who is sent; a messenger.

    • Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Specially sent

      Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.

      • a letter missive
      • Delivery of the Letters Missive

    2. Serving as a missile

      Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.

      • In vain with Darts a diſtant War they try, / Short, and more ſhort the miſſive weapons fly.

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Derived

letter missive

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for missive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA