amission
English
Etymology
Latin amissio: compare French amission.
Noun
amission
- (obsolete) deprivation; loss
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
- Why Geomancers do imitate the Quintuple Figure, in their Mother Characters of Acquisition and Amission, &c. somewhat answering the Figures in the Lady or speckled Beetle?
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 amission in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)