Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Emitting; emissive.
- noun One who or that which emits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sending forth; emissive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Sending forth;
emissive .
Etymologies
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Latin emittens, present participle emittere.
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Examples
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Gimcrack's uncle, well-named Snarl, may have the last word, so far as The Virtuoso is concerned: “If the blood of an ass were transfus'd into a virtuoso, you would not know the emittent ass from the recipient philoso - pher.”
VIRTUOSO MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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Further, what is life itself but, as it is commonly called, the breath of our nostrils, whence it is very justly observed by naturalists that wind still continues of great emolument in certain mysteries not to be named, giving occasion for those happy epithets of turgidus and inflatus, applied either to the emittent or recipient organs.
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706
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