English Dictionary

missive

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɪsɪv/

名詞

フォーマル スコットランド英語 複数形 廃用

(formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo. / (in the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.

日本語の意味

書簡、便り / 手紙、メモ、または書面によるメッセージ / （スコットランド法において、複数形で用いられる）一方が申し出を行い、他方が受諾する内容のやり取りを示す書面

He sent a sealed missive to the committee outlining his objections.

彼は異議を詳述した封書を委員会に送った。

意味（1）

(formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.

[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.

意味（2）

(in the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.

意味（3）

(obsolete) One 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.’

missives （ plural ）