- 1書信、信函（正經場合或開玩笑時才會用；平常就說「信」或 email）
A missive is a letter — something written and sent. In ordinary talk almost nobody says “I got a missive”; they say letter, email, or message. When people do use it, they are usually being playful or a little grand: “I have received your latest missive” about a long, serious email, or a parent joking about a note from school. It can also sound old, like a history book (a royal missive, a wartime missive). The humour comes from treating an everyday message as if it were an official dispatch.
組成A learned borrowing from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō, “to send.” A missive is, at heart, a thing sent.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
missivenoun/ˈmɪsɪv/
- 1
formalA written message; a letter, note or memo.
- [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
- The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test[…]
- 2
Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
- 3
obsoleteOne who is sent; a messenger.
- Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
missiveadj/ˈmɪsɪv/
- 1
Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
- a letter missive
- Delivery of the Letters Missive
- 2
obsoleteServing as a missile; intended to be thrown.
- In vain with Darts a diſtant War they try, / Short, and more ſhort the miſſive weapons fly.
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