missionern.
/ˈmɪʃənə/, /ˈmɪʃn̩ə/, U.S. /ˈmɪʃənər/ 1. A person sent on or charged with a mission, a missionary; originally esp. a Jesuit missionary. In modern use chiefly: a person engaged in religious or humanitarian outreach in his or her own country; spec. a person (usually a diocesan official) who conducts or is in charge of a parochial mission.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > person sent on a mission
emissary1631
missioner1654
missionaire1687
missionary1693
envoy1696
society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts
missionary1625
missioner1654
gospeller1673
umfundisi1825
God-man1842
moruti1866
missionizer1901
missionist1909
mish1939
1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. v. §3. 94 The missioners of France..seek to establish this practice in all places where they teach, that persons of all conditions, make some short address to God, at the striking of every clock.
1691 J. Dryden Let. Sir G. Etherege in Hist. Adolphus 76 Like mighty Missioner you come, Ad partes infidelium.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 120 Other four were sent as itinerant Preachers and Missioners into all the Counties of England.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. I. 51 The pope enjoined his missioner to remove the pagan idols.
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. iii. 274 The British style of..illumination..was carried by British missioners far to the north.
1862 H. Furniss Confession §xv. 16 One night during the Mission he went into the church. He stood near the platform where the missioner was preaching.
1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France II. 76 St. Fronto,..probably a missioner of the third century.
1896 19th Cent. Aug. 213 Our [sc. the Jesuits'] position as theologians, missioners, preachers.
1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World i. 12 The holy missioners making sermons on the villainy of man.
1949 New Life Jan. 283 It was a Mission. Anyway, I joined the queue afterward for confession, and when my turn came, went in and explained everything to the Missioner.
1983 G. Pearson Hooligan 96 In 1890 Alex Divine, Police Court Missioner to Lads in Salford, had described how the ‘professional scuttler’ was attired.
1993 Times 1 Apr. 21/3 In 1944 he was appointed missioner and adviser on Judaica to the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem.
2. figurative. Now rare.
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1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther (ed. 2) ii. 63 Those are the Manufactures we export; And these the Missioners [(ed. 1) Missionaires] our zeal has made.
1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless II. xviii. 215 As every little circumstance..seems a missioner from fate.
1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 144 You will have a missioner of peace and order in every parish.
1926 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira 272 The best known..of all missioners—the willow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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