transmiss

English

Etymology

From Latin trānsmissus, past participle of Latin trānsmittere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈmɪs/, /tɹɑːnzˈmɪs/

Noun

transmiss (plural transmisses)

1. (law, formal) A (version of a) bill or other document sent or transmitted to a council, court, or other body; a transmission.
   • 1782, Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, page 261:

     ... was presented to the House and read the first Time, and ordered to be read a second Time to-morrow Morning. Ordered, that a Committee be appointed to compare the Transmisses of the said Bills, with the Heads of the said Bills sent ...

   • 1832, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, “COURTS OF JUSTICE, IRELAND. SUGGESTIONS AND REGULATIONS”, in Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, volume 35, page 32:

     Prerogative, when any party shall require a transmiss to be made out for the Court of Appeal, ...

   • 1920, Robert Henry Murray, Ireland, 1494-1603, page 3:

     Transmisses were the Bills sent by the King in Council to the Council Board in Ireland, as having the King's sanction to be debated and passed by the Parliament in Ireland.

   • 1941, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Analecta Hibernica, page 162:

     They are in court-hand, like transmisses; but they have no writs & the membranes are connected, not at bottom, like transmisses, but at the side. We refer to them by the letter D.

   • 2002, Henry Fitz-Patrick Berry, James Morrissey, Statute Rolls of the Parliament of Ireland ...: Richard III - Henry VIII, Ireland:

     This document, known as a transmiss, was sent to the Irish council, and further transmisses, containing additional legislation, might be sent during the lifetime of the parliament. The transmisses were usually enrolled on the patent rolls of the ...

Verb

transmiss (third-person singular simple present transmisses, present participle transmissing, simple past and past participle transmissed)

1. (chiefly law, computing, medicine, formal) To transmit.
   • 1890, United States. Congress House, ...Constitution of the United States: Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives...and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives.., page 188:

     Treaties transmissed by the President to the Senate for ratification […]

   • 1984, Patents Abstracts of Japan: Unexamined Applications:

     A data processor 10 makes data communication with other data processor via a loop line with a transmissing receiving circuit 39.

   • 1998, Optoelectronic and Electronic Sensors, Society of Photo Optical:

     THE MODEL OF THE MEMBRANE SENSOR AS A DELAY LINE There is a possibility of modelling of the transmissing loss line in the SPICE programme.

   • 1999, California. Legislature. Senate, Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California, page 4976:

     Urgency clause read and adopted, bill passed, and ordered transmissed to the Assembly.

   • 2014, P. L. Roberts, “Virus elimination during the purification of monoclonal antibodies by column chromatography and additional steps”, in Biotechnology progress:

     […] a good microbiological safety record, there remains the theoretical risk of transmissing infectious agents […]