*mission*

n. [ L. amissio: cf. F. amission. ] Deprivation; loss. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F., fr. L. commissio. See Commit. ] 1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let him see our commission. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission. [ 1913 Webster ]

A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Com.) (a) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another. (b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city. (c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. [ 1913 Webster ]

Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. --
Commission of bankruptcy, a commission appointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors. --
Commission of lunacy, a commission authorizing an inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not. --
Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation. --
Commission officer or
Commissioned officer, (Mil.), one who has a commission, in distinction from a noncommissioned or warrant officer. --
Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal, constituting one or more persons justices of the peace. [ Eng. ] --
on commission, paid partly or completely by collecting as a commision a portion of the sales that one makes. --
out of commission, not operating properly; out of order. --
To put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a government vessel, and send it out on service after it has been laid up; esp., the formal act of taking command of a vessel for service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders, etc. --
To put a vessel out of commission (Naut.), to detach the officers and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or permanently. --
To put the great seal into commission or
To put the Treasury into commission, to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and the accession of another. [ Eng. ] --
The United States Christian Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. --
The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to cooperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War.

Syn. -- Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust; employment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Commissioned p. pr & vb. n. Commissioning. ] 1. To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send out with a charge or commission. [ 1913 Webster ]

A chosen band
He first commissions to the Latian land. Dryden.

Syn. -- To appoint; depute; authorize; empower; delegate; constitute; ordain.

n. [ F. commissionnaire. Cf. Commissioner. ] 1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. a uniformed doorman. [ British ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ a. Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Delegate or commissionary authority. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To commission [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Mil.) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above; -- of military officers. Contrasts with noncommissioned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. given official approval to act; as, commissioned broker.
Syn. -- accredited, licensed, licenced. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. created according to an order; as, a commissioned painting. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. [ 1913 Webster ]

To another address which requested that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subordinates of the secretary of the interior. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Commissioner of deeds, an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. [ U. S. ] --
County commissioners, certain administrative officers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. commissio. ] 1. An agent or factor; a commission merchant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of commissioner. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. demissio, fr. demittere. See Demit. ] 1. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. “Demission of mind.” Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resignation of an office. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to transfer or conveyance; as, a demissionary deed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tending to lower, depress, or degrade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dimissio. See Dimit, and cf. Dismission. ] Leave to depart; a dismissing. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of a commission or trust. [ R. ] Laud. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. dimissio. ] 1. The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. emissio: cf. F. émission. See Emit. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Emission theory (Physics), the theory of Newton, regarding light as consisting of emitted particles or corpuscles. See Corpuscular theory, under Corpuscular. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sending out; emission. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immissio: cf. F. immission. See Immit. ] The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of submission; disobedience; noncompliance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intermissio: cf. F. intermission. See Intermit. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rest or intermission none I find. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Specifically: The short period between acts of a play, concert, opera, or other public performance when the audience may leave their seats for refreshment; -- it usually lasts from 10 to 20 minutes. [ PJC ]

4. (Med.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Intervention; interposition. [ Obs. ] Heylin.

Syn. -- Cessation; interruption; interval; pause; stop; rest; suspension. See Cessation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The governmental commision charged with making and enforcing regulations concerning interstate commerce. [ U. S. ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. intromission. See Intromit. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically; (Zool.) The insertion of the male copulatory organ into the female in the process of coitus. South. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Four populations [ of the vlei rat ] varied in a number of parameters of copulatory behavior, such as latency to first mount, number of intromissions per series, and latency to intromission after first ejaculation. Edith Dempster (African Small Mammals Newsletter, Issue No. 16, May 1996, Laboratoir Mammifères & Oiseaux, Paris) [ PJC ]

3. The act of letting go in; admission. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Scots Law) An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Refusal of pardon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. producing little emission of atmospheric pollutants; as, a low-emission vehicle.
Syn. -- low-polluting. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. manumissio: cf. F. manumission. See Manumit. ] The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage. “Given to slaves at their manumission.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. missio, fr. mittere, missum, to send: cf. F. mission. See Missile. ] 1. The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,
Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission. [ 1913 Webster ]

How to begin, how to accomplish best
His end of being on earth, and mission high. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy; as, the Russian mission to the United Nations. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers. Addis & Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Dismission; discharge from service. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mission school. (a) A school connected with a mission and conducted by missionaries. (b) A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Message; errand; commission; deputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To send on a mission. [ Mostly used in the form of the past participle. ] Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Missionaries [ Cf. F. missionnaire. See Mission, n. ] One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Missionary apostolic, a Roman Catholic missionary sent by commission from the pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. “Like mighty missioner you come.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Failure to be admitted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not having a commission. [ 1913 Webster ]

Noncommissioned officer (Mil.), a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. omissio: cf. F. omission. See Omit. ] 1. The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The most natural division of all offenses is into those of omission and those of commission. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is omitted or is left undone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. permissio: cf. F. permission. See Permit. ] The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. [ 1913 Webster ]

High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Leave; liberty; license. -- Leave, Permission. Leave implies that the recipient may decide whether to use the license granted or not. Permission is the absence on the part of another of anything preventive, and in general, at least by implication, signifies approval. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lit., previous admission; specif. (Engin.), admission, as of steam, to the engine cylinder before the back stroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. praetermissio. See Pretermit. ] 1. The act of passing by or omitting; omission. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) See Preterition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To commission again; to give a new commission to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Officers whose time of service had expired were to be recommissioned. Marshall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. rémission, L. remissio. See Remit. ] 1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matt. xxvi. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

That ples, therefore, . . .
Will gain thee no remission. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of sending back. [ R. ] Stackhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. submissio a letting down, lowering: cf. F. soumission. ] 1. The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Submission, dauphin! 't is a mere French word;
We English warrious wot not what it means. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all submission and humility
York doth present himself unto your highness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No duty in religion is more justly required by God . . . than a perfect submission to his will in all things. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not as extreme in submission
As in offense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators. Wharton (Law Dict.). Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transmissio; cf. F. transmission. See Transmit. ] 1. The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) The mechanism within a vehicle which transmits rotational power from the engine to the axle of the wheel propelling the vehicle; it includes the gears and gear-changing mechanism as well as the propeller shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The process or event of sending signals by means of a radio-frequency wave from an electronic transmitter to a receiving device. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A dynamometer in which power is measured, without being absorbed or used up, during transmission. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An adherent of a theory, the
transmission theory, that the brain serves to “transmit, ” rather than to originate, conclusions, and hence that consciousness may exist independently of the brain. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]