5 July 2015
missive
[mis-iv]
noun
1. a written message; letter.
adjective
2. sent or about to be sent, especially of a letter from an official source.
Origin of missive
late Middle English Medieval Latin
1400-1450; late Middle English (letter) missive < Medieval Latin (littera) missīva sent (letter), equivalent to Latin miss (us) (past participle of mittere to send) + -īva, feminine of -īvus -ive
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Examples from the web for missive
The missive was received back in London by David Barrie, a senior diplomat, who appended his own note.
(British Officials Portrayed Reagan as a “Bozo” Nico Hines, Ben Jacobs April 29, 2014)
To blog from behind bars, Gioeli begins by writing a missive by hand.
(Meet the Mafia’s First Blogger, Tommy Gioeli Michael Daly March 29, 2012)
Still, after the missive, he admitted that he did not vote for the great Barack hope.
(Let the Awards Season Begin Rachel Syme January 6, 2009)
Anagram
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Today’s quote
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
– Archibald MacLeish
On this day
5 July 1937 – The canned meat, Spam (spiced ham) released to market by Hormel Food Corporation.
5 July 1946 – the first bikini goes on sale after its debut at a fashion show in Paris. It was designed by Parisian engineer, Louis Réard. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean where the USA had been conducting testing of atomic bombs. Réard hoped that the bikini would have an ‘explosive commercial and cultural reaction’ just like an atomic bomb.
5 July 1989 – Former US Marine and white-house aide, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North given a three-year suspended sentence, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours of community service after being convicted of ‘accepting an illegal gratuity’, ‘aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry’ and ordering the destruction of documents during his role in the Iran-Contra affair (a political scandal during the Reagan administration in which the US government was selling weapons via intermediaries to Iran, a nation that was blacklisted from receiving weapons. The profits were channeled through Nicaraguan terrorist groups, the Contras, which were violently opposing Nicaragua’s ruling left-wing Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction).
5 July 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.