mittent

English

Etymology

From Latin mittens, present participle of mittere (“to send”).

Adjective

mittent (comparative more mittent, superlative most mittent)

  1. (obsolete, humorism) Emitting harmful humors.
    • 1661, Robert Lovell, “Anthropologia, &c. Of Man. &c.”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, [...], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC, page 332:
      The symptomes of the imagination, sc. the Vertigo, which is […] cured, […] if from the liver, spleen, womb, or whole body, according to the mittent and recipient part, by phlebotomy, catharticks, revulsion and roborants […]
    • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises:
      Vicious Humours peccant in quantity or quality are either thrust forth by the Part mittent, […] or attracted by the Part recipient.
    • 1684, A guide to the practical physician, translated from Théophile Bonet's Mercurius compitalitius (1682?) and edited by anonymous translator, page 631:
      If the part mittent be less noble, the matter must be drawn to the ignoble part, if the pain of the Stomach proceed from arthritick pains, the Physician need not fear to send the pains to the former place.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mittent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

mittent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of mittō
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