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noun

Missive n.

That which is sent; a writing containing a message.

One who is sent; a messenger. (Obs.)

adjective

Missive adj.

Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.

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.

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"Missive" Quotes from Famous Books

... he wrote a note, and gave to the fighting man: 'Twas writ to the boss of the neighbouring run, and thus the missive ran: 'The man with this is a fighting man, one Stiffener Joe by name; He came near murdering Saltbush Bill, and I found it a costly game: But it's worth your while to employ the chap, for there isn't the slightest doubt You'll have no trouble from ...

— Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

... the Certosa knew their own interest too well not to comply with this somewhat imperious missive, and left nothing undone which could gratify their illustrious guests. Isabella's curiosity for the beautiful and marvellous was amply gratified, and in Lodovico's future letters to his sister-in-law we find more than one allusion to "our church and convent of the Certosa, ...

— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright

... pleasant to him as he wore His careless surcoat, glanced some missive o'er, Propped on his truncheon in ...

— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke

... we will frighten His Majesty into bettering his finances," and he handed her a confidential missive that had accompanied the other. Bazaine was therein authorized, when the security of the Mexican Empire absolutely demanded it, to advance ten ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... seen the priest hide it under a great bowl on his table, so that when the good father left his cottage, it was the matter of but a moment's work for Spizo to transfer the message from its hiding place to the breast of his tunic. The fellow could not read, but he to whom he took the missive could, laboriously, decipher the Latin ...

— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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