Mission
['mɪʃ(ə)n] or ['mɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the organized work of a religious missionary.
(noun.) a special assignment that is given to a person or group; 'a confidential mission to London'; 'his charge was deliver a message'.
(noun.) an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; 'the planes were on a bombing mission'.
(noun.) an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work.
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Definition
(n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
(n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
(n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
(n.) An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
(n.) An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
(n.) A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
(n.) Dismission; discharge from service.
(v. t.) To send on a mission.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Commission, office, duty, charge, business, errand.[2]. Delegation, embassy.[3]. Missionary station.
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Definition
n. a sending of any agent delegate or messenger: the purpose for which one is sent: the sending out persons to spread a religion: a series of special religious services conducted by a missioner: any particular field of missionary enterprise: persons sent on a mission: an embassy: a station or association of missionaries: duty on which one is sent: purpose of life.—v.t. (rare) to commission.—n. Miss′ionary one sent upon a mission to spread the knowledge of religion.—adj. pertaining to missions.—ns. Miss′ionary-bish′op one having jurisdiction in a heathen country or in districts not yet formed into dioceses; Miss′ioner one who conducts a series of special mission services; Miss′ion-school a school for religious and sometimes also secular instruction for the poor kept up by charity: a school conducted by a missionary abroad.
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Examples
- It was about this mission that you wanted to consult me? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But first he had encountered the company commander in the front line who had regarded the whole mission with owlishly grave suspicion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Rome mission was sent by Pope Gregory the Great just at the close of the sixth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His mission was clear, and he intended to discharge it conscientiously. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His only hope was to plead again with May, and on the day before his departure he walked with her to the ruinous garden of the Spanish Mission. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- You can imagine that he would not have sent a stranger on such a mission. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Electricity can have no greater mission than improving, strengthening and upbuilding good homes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I have come, not to look for employment, as I spoke of doing when we last met, but on a special mission-- Ah--! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Did He not say that his mission, in all ages, was to bind up the broken-hearted, and set at liberty them that are bruised? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I will read an extract from a letter written by a lady who received the cream: ‘Universities Mission To Central Africa, ‘Mbweni, Zanzibar, March 8, 1881. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He may also have been sent on a mission to India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So I supposed: you could hardly have accepted such a mission otherwise. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We have seen the Roman Republic wrecked, and here we see the church failing in its world mission very largely through ineffective electoral methods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oliver obeyed, and followed his master on his professional mission. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- When I wander, her gentler spirit ever restores me, and keeps before my eyes the Christian calling and mission of our race. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Here is the Napoleonic view of the political uses of Christ, a view that has tainted all French missions from that time forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Christian missions became offensively busy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was one of these missions which carried that cutting of the Bo Tree, of which we have already told, to Ceylon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With the downfall of the Mongolian (Yuan) dynasty (1368), the dwindling opportunity of the Christian missions passed altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The German sword was always clattering over the Alps into Italy, and missions and legates toiling over in the reverse direction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There may have been a massacre of the Christian missions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was given an official position and sent on several missions, chiefly in South-west China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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