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Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

Giving dismission.

s at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.

The office of an emissary.

ng or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes.

Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. [Obs.] "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.

Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body.

Same as Emissary, a., 2.

A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

Not permissible.

The state or quality of being inadmissible, or not to be received.

Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed, or received; as, inadmissible testimony; an inadmissible proposition, or explanation. -- In`ad*mis"si*bly, adv.

Incapable of being lost. [R.] Hammond. -- In`a*mis"si*ble*ness, n. [R.]

Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.

an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton.

Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent. "Intermissive miseries." Shak. "Intermissive wars." Howell.

Not capable of being transmitted.