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CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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Missive

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

mis=sive

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Missive has 1 sense

missive(n = noun.communication) letter - a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"

is a kind of document, text, textual matter

is a part of mail, correspondence

has particulars: 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

has parts: postscript, ps, address, destination, name and address, line

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Missive, a. [See Missive, n.].

Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive. Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
Missile. Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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.

Missive, n. [F. lettre missive. See Mission, n.].

That which is sent; a writing containing a message. [1913 Webster]
One who is sent; a messenger. Shak. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Missive, n.
1 joc. a letter, esp. a long and serious one.
2 an official letter.

Idiom

letter (or letters) missive a letter from a sovereign to a dean and chapter nominating a person to be elected bishop.

Etymology

ME f. med.L missivus f. L (as MISSION)

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ROGET THESAURUS

Missive

Correspondence

N correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux, chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card, postal, card, despatch, dispatch, bulletin, these presents, rescript, rescription, post, epistolary, furor scribendi.

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