mittent
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin mittens, present participle of mittere (“to send”).
Adjective
editmittent (comparative more mittent, superlative most mittent)
- (obsolete) Sending forth; emitting.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises:
- The Part mittent , and Part recipient
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mittent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
editVerb
editmittent