mission

mission
mission (n.) 1590s, "a sending abroad," originally of Jesuits, from L. missionem (nom. missio) "act of sending, a despatching; a release, a setting at liberty; discharge from service, dismissal," noun of action from pp. stem of mittere "to send," oldest form probably *smittere, of unknown origin. Diplomatic sense of "body of persons sent to a foreign land on commercial or political business" is from 1620s. In American English, sometimes "an embassy" (1805). Meaning "dispatch of an aircraft on a military operation" (1929, Amer.Eng.) later extended to spacecraft flights (1962), hence, mission control (1964). As a style of furniture, said to be imitative of furniture in the buildings of original Spanish missions to North America, it is attested from 1900.

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