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Webster 1913 Edition


Extramission

Exˊtra-mis′sion

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Noun.
A sending out; emission.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Extramission

EXTRAMIS'SION

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Noun.
[L. extra and mitto, to send.]
A sending out; emission.

Definition 2024


extramission

extramission

English

Noun

extramission (plural extramissions)

  1. (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.