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Webster 1913 Edition
Extramission
Exˊtra-mis′sion
,Noun.
A sending out; emission.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Extramission
EXTRAMIS'SION
,Noun.
A sending out; emission.
Definition 2024
extramission
extramission
English
Noun
extramission (plural extramissions)
- (obsolete) Emission.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7:
- Aristotle, Alhazen, Vitello, and others [...] hold, that sight is made by reception, and not by extramission; by receiving the rays of the object into the eye, and not be sending any out.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7: