a. [f. L. transmiss- (see TRANSMISS v.) + -IBLE. Cf. F. transmissible (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), and L. remissibilis, etc.] Capable of being transmitted.
1644. Bp. Maxwell, Prerog. Chr. Kings, v. 59. It is transmissible to his Successor.
1660. Bond, Scut. Reg., 138. God did declare it transmissible from Adam to the first born.
1798. Malthus, Popul., III. i. (1806), II. 86. Transmissible and contagious disorders.
1869. Dk. of Argyll, Primeval Man, II. 39. Some varieties of form are effected … by domestication, and by constant care in the selection of peculiarities transmissible to the young.
1885. Sir E. Fry, in Law Rep., 29 Ch. Div. 283. The right to a grant of administration is not transmissible.
