missive

英语

词源

15世纪，源自中世紀拉丁語 missīvus，源自mittō (“发送”)。

发音

• (英國，美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈmɪsɪv/

• （英国）音频：

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名词

missive (複數 missives)

1. (正式) 公文，公函
   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
   • December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger and Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, 出自 Time Magazine‎^[1]:

     The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test […]

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   • 25 October 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.

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2. (复数，蘇格蘭，法律) （两政党间的）协商 （一个党派提出一个提案而另一个党派接受）
3. (棄用) 信使
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’

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形容词

missive (無比較級)

1. 待送出的

   a letter missive

   待寄出的信件

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     Delivery of the Letters Missive

2. (棄用) 投掷用的
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相关词汇

• 参阅mission了解词源上与send有关的词汇

参考资料

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024年)，“missive”，《在线词源词典》（Online Etymology Dictionary）

法语

发音

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名词

missive f (複數 missives)

1. 书信，函件

延伸阅读

• 查看“missive”在 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé [法语数字化宝典] 中的释义。

意大利语

名词

missive f

1. missiva 的複數