emissitious

English

Etymology

From Latin emissitius, from emittere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛmɪˈsɪʃəs/

Adjective

emissitious (comparative more emissitious, superlative most emissitious)

1. (obsolete) Looking, or narrowly examining; prying.
   • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

     Malicious Mass-Priest, cast back those emissitious eyes, to your own infamous Chair of Rome; and, if even in that thou canst discern no spectacles of abominable uncleanness, spend thy spiteful censures upon ours.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “emissitious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)