Obs. [n. of action f. L. phrase extrā mittĕre to send outwards: see EXTRA and MISSION.] Sending outwards; emission.
c. 1630. Jackson, Creed, IV. II. iv. Wks. III. 244. Nor do faith and love truly Christian arise from every … extramission of our faculties unto Christ.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. vii. 120. Sight is made by Reception, and not by Extramission.
1673–4. Grew, Anat. Plants, III. II. ii. § 1 (1682), 127. The Reception, as well as Extramission whereof [the Aer].
