v. Obs. Also 5–6 -myse. In earliest use in pa. pple. transmised, app. rendering F. pa. pple. transmis, -mise; cf. demise, premise, promise.] trans. To cause to pass or go; to send; = TRANSMIT.
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XIII. vii. Thyder had kynge Priamus transmysed and sent … his sone Polydorus. Ibid. (1490), Eneydos, xiv. 52. The sonne … shal haue transmysed hys shynynge bemes.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg., C ij. For the moste parte of the thynges that it [the liver] is composed is flesshely, blody, & therwith ben transmysed dyuers pypes or arteres.
1646. J. Hall, Horæ Vac., 53. There being an innate desire in every man, to transmise himself unto posterity.
