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Mission   /mˈɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Mission  n.  
1.
The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. "Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves."
2.
That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission. "How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high."
3.
Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy; as, the Russian mission to the United Nations. "In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house."
4.
An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
5.
An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
6.
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.
7.
Dismission; discharge from service. (Obs.)
Mission school.
(a)
A school connected with a mission and conducted by missionaries.
(b)
A school for the religious instruction of children not having regular church privileges.
Synonyms: Message; errand; commission; deputation.


verb
Mission  v. t.  To send on a mission. (Mostly used in the form of the past participle.)





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"Mission" Quotes from Famous Books



... quitted the room without another word, I realized, in a flash, the purport of our mission; I understood my friend's ...
— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... be lost if every woman listens to Madame Rosamund. That is what she cannot see. Her genius blinds her. You say I am a friend of Madame Rosamund. I am. Madame Rosamund was educated in Paris, at the same school as my aunt and myself. But I have never helped her in her mission. And I never will. My vocation is elsewhere. When she fled over here from the English police, she came to me. I received her. She asked me to drive her to certain addresses. I did so. She was my guest. I surrounded her with all that she had abandoned, all that her genius had forced her to ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... never marry!" announced the former, thinking ruefully of the bare countryside, with never a house of consequence within a radius of miles ... "I am a suffragette. I believe in the high, lofty mission of women!" cried the second, who had been converted to the movement the day before by the sight of some sketches in the Daily Graphic. Only nine- year-old Maud sniffed, and opined, "I shall marry a lord! Then he'll have lots of money, and I'll give it to father, and ...
— Etheldreda the Ready - A School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... down the worn road, side by side they chose with experienced care those wheel ruts where the black dust lay thickest and, in solemn earnestness, plowed the hot tracks with their bare feet, as if their one mission in life were to add the largest possible cloud of powdered dirt to the already murky ...
— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright
... all that was said, saw that it would be the height of folly to put himself in the power of Umbulazi and his followers, and therefore, thanking Mangaleesu, whom he now recognised, for his good intentions, replied to the prince's invitation, that his mission being accomplished, he and his party must ...
— Hendricks the Hunter - The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand • W.H.G. Kingston


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