extramission

extramission

English

Etymology

From Latin extra mittere.

Noun

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.