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Definition of Missioner
1. Noun. Someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country.
Generic synonyms: Religious Person
Specialized synonyms: Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Jacques Marquette, Marquette, Pere Jacques Marquette, Apostle Of The Gentiles, Apostle Paul, Paul, Paul The Apostle, Saint Paul, Saul, Saul Of Tarsus, St. Paul, Albert Schweitzer, Schweitzer, Junipero Serra, Miguel Jose Serra, Serra, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa, Mother Theresa, Teresa, Theresa
Derivative terms: Mission, Mission, Mission, Mission
Definition of Missioner
1. n. A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission,
Definition of Missioner
1. Noun. A missionary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Missioner
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missioner
Literary usage of Missioner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"... or given, on a form to be issued in blank for that purpose by the (Tom-
missioner of Internal Revenue. Every person who shall accept any such order, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"Thecom- missioner finds that the moneys were expended in accordance with tbe order.
The final decree declares that the lien of the Paris and Decatur bonds ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and Duc de Rohan. ready to support and guide this first missioner of the Society.
She called all the superiors together in council at Paris in 1820, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... Charleston, SC From 1850, when he entered the Redemptorist Order, until 1858
he was a missioner, and in the latter year was dispensed from his vows to ..."
5. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1891)
"The charge which was often brought against "oTs'com-'0 him by contemporaries of
wishing to seat himself missioner. upon his master's Scottish throne, ..."
6. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"... there in quality of civil com. missioner. He made all the administrative
regulations that were necessary for the establishment of the municipal system ..."
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