missionedadj.
/ˈmɪʃnd/, U.S. /ˈmɪʃ(ə)nd/ Chiefly poetic.† 2. Of or relating to the task a person has to perform. Obsolete. rare.
1. Having a mission; sent on a mission or errand.
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society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > sent on a mission
missivea1450
emissary1685
missionary1691
missioned1796
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iii. 101 The mission'd maid reply'd, ‘Go thou Dunois, Announce my mission to the royal ear’.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 431 The mission'd men, who have renounced Their homes, their country..Bearing glad tidings to the farthest isles.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 94 When Madeline, St. Agnes' charmed maid, Rose, like a mission'd spirit, unaware.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 38 The missioned Angel of Destruction.
1851 G. Meredith Poems (1978) I. 7 To..send abroad the missioned bird.
1928 L. Binyon Idols ii. 28 Of that fountain unaware Which they spring from and renew, Finding out their missioned way.
1995 Admin. & Soc. (Nexis) 27 165 A ‘semi-powered’ bureaucracy of ‘missioned professionals’.
2012 A. M. Butler Across God's Frontiers v. 175 In the West, these visits jolted missioned sisters into recalling the world of the motherhouse, so utterly removed from their daily circumstances.
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society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > that belongs to one's mission to perform
missioned1798
1798 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) 2 77 Ere his mission'd toil is done.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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