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

Implying an admission; tending to admit. [R.] Lamb.

Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission. [R.]

Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630).

Giving dismission.

Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

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

Not remitting; unforgiving.

Not submissive.

Leaving out; omitting. Bp. Hall. -- O*mis"sive*ly, adv.

Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton.

In a permissive manner.

Making a promise; implying a promise; promising. [R.]

Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.

o submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton.

ing transmitted; derived, or handed down, from one to another. Itself a sun, it with transmissive light Enlivens worlds denied to human sight. Prior.

Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

To salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. "Except she bend her humor." Shak.

ed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.