mittent

English

Etymology

From Latin mittens, present participle of mittere (“to send”).

Adjective

mittent (comparative more mittent, superlative most mittent)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Verb

mittent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of mittō