Word Meanings - IMMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

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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.
• THRUSTING
  The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• THRUST
  Thrist. Spenser.
• INJECTION
  1. The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aëriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc. 2. That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body
• THRUSTLE
  The throstle, or song thrust. When he heard the thrustel sing. Chaucer.
• CORRELATIVELY
  In a correlative relation.
• CORRELATIVE
  Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.
• 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.
• THRUSTER
  One who thrusts or stabs.
• SUPERINJECTION
  An injection succeeding another.
• 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.