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Definition of Missive
1. Noun. A written message addressed to a person or organization. "Mailed an indignant letter to the editor"
Generic synonyms: Document, Text, Textual Matter
Group relationships: Mail, Correspondence
Specialized synonyms: Business Letter, Cover Letter, Covering Letter, Crank Letter, Encyclical, Encyclical Letter, Fan Letter, Personal Letter, Form Letter, Open Letter, Chain Letter, Pastoral, Round Robin, Aerogram, Aerogramme, Air Letter, Airmail Letter, Epistle, Dead Letter, Dead Mail, Letter Of Intent, Invitation
Terms within: Postscript, Ps, Address, Destination, Name And Address, Line
Definition of Missive
1. a. Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.
2. n. That which is sent; a writing containing a message.
Definition of Missive
1. Noun. (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Missive
1. a written communication [n -S]
Medical Definition of Missive
1. 1. Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive. 2. Missile. "The missive weapons fly." Letters missive, letters conveying the permission, comand, or advice of a superior authority, as a sovereign. They are addressed and sent to some certain person or persons, and are distinguished from letters patent, which are addressed to the public. See: Missive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Missive
Literary usage of Missive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Practice of the High Court of Chancery: With Some by Edmund Robert Daniell, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1837)
"Of Letters missive. Letters missive. THE nature and form of letters missive have
been before I low obtained. pointed out (4), and all that remains now to be ..."
2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1897)
"His " missive" or report to Rev. Heinrich Muhlen, an influential church dignitary
in Holstein, is not alone valuable as it sets forth the religious ..."
3. History of a Suit in Equity from Its Commencement to Its Final Termination by Charles Barton, James Philemon Holcombe, Francis Bacon (1877)
"A Letter missive in Chancery.1 MY LORD: It appears by & petition, ... It is to
be observed that the letter missive is not a process of the court, ..."
4. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"In a reduction of two decrees of constitution and adjudication, which bore to be
founded on a missive dated 10th December, while its true date was 10th ..."
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