Word of the Day: EMISSITIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin emissicius (sent out), from emiss- participial stem of emittere + -ous

EXAMPLE
“… And if any one of our Clergy, after a legal and just divorce long since, have taken to himself that liberty, which other Reformed Churches publicly allow; as granting in some case a full release, both a thoro and a vinculo; what ground is this, for an impure wretch to cast dirt in the eyes of our Clergy, and in the teeth of our Church? 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. …”

From: The Honor of the Married Clergie
By: Joseph Hall, 1620

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