extramission

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin extra mittere.

Noun[edit]

extramission (plural extramissions)

  1. (obsolete) Emission.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7:
      Aristotle, Alhazen, Vitello, and others [...] hold, that sight is made by reception, and not by extramission; by receiving the rays of the object into the eye, and not be sending any out.
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