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transmissive, a.|trɑːnsˈmɪsɪv, træns-, -nz-|
[f. L. transmiss- (see transmiss v.) + -ive: cf. L. remissīvus remissive.]
1. Having the quality or action of transmitting.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V ccclxxxvi, Harry (who gave more Of fate in his Transmissive veins, then both Could worke) yet wraps the Infant in that Cloth. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xxv. 231 The transmissive power of certain substances having a dark colour exceeds by four or five times that of others perfectly diaphanous. 1903Union Mag. Oct. 437/1 The function of the brain is not ‘productive’ but ‘transmissive’ of consciousness.
2. Having the quality of being transmitted.
1700Prior Carmen Seculare 164 The Sire [may] inculcate to his Son Transmissive Lessons of the King's Renown. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Greece (1825) II. 152 The native quickness of apprehension, which as if transmissive,..is inherited even by the lower classes of the people. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 68 Modifications of the genus of transmitted or transmissive evidence. 1887L. P. Mercer New Birth (1890) 74 Transmissive dispositions and proclivities to evil, coming down a long line of tainted ancestry.
Hence transˈmissively adv., by way of transmission; transˈmissiveness.
1881Sir W. Armstrong in Nature 8 Sept. 451/2 There will be a limit to the distance to which electricity may be profitably conveyed, but within that limit there will be wide scope for its employment transmissively. 1889Home Missionary (N.Y.) Sept. 220 The aim is transmissiveness of the divine motive power. |