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Definition of Missioners
1. missioner [n] - See also: missioner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missioners
Literary usage of Missioners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He also took an active part in procuring the publication of the Bull convening
the council. and organized a band of missioners for the evangelization of the ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"Walling, 15 NJ Eq. 173. missioners to settle with the purchaser upon his application,
so far as the bonds for the purchase money had already matured, ..."
3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"... the said or other persons appointed by the Com- plaintiff not having given
the notice missioners under the authority of this required by sect. ..."
4. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"His- refusal to take oath. missioners resolved to begin with Sir Thomas More,
knowing that if he should submit, no farther resistance need be apprehended. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Com missioners of Knox Co. v. Aspinwall, 21 How., 539, 16 L. ed., 208; Conn. Hut.
Ins. Co. v. Cleveland R. Co. 41 Barb., NY, 22; 2 Redf. Railw. 523; 1 Pars. ..."
6. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1903)
"missioners of the proper county and with railroad, street railway and other
companies and parties interested or with any of them for the erection, ..."
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