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What (who) is missive - definition

WRITTEN MESSAGE FROM ONE TO ANOTHER

Personal letter; Rejection Letter; Missive; Missives; Informal letter; Lettermail; Letter mail

missive

(missives)

A missive is a letter or other message that someone sends. (HUMOROUS or LITERARY)

...the customary missive from your dear mother.

= epistle

N-COUNT

Missive

·noun One who is sent; a messenger.

II. Missive ·noun Missile.

III. Missive ·noun That which is sent; a writing containing a message.

IV. Missive ·noun Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.

missive

¦ noun

1. formal or humorous a letter.

2. Scots Law a document in the form of a letter interchanged by the parties to a contract.

Phrases

conclude missives Scots Law sign a contract with the vendor of a property or piece of land to signify change of ownership.

Origin

ME (as adjective, orig. in the phr. letter missive): from med. L. missivus, from L. mittere 'send'.

Wikipedia

Letter (message)

A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. Something epistolary means that it is a form of letter writing. The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by large numbers of people, such as newspapers and placards, although even these may include material in the form of an "open letter". The typical form of a letter for many centuries, and the archetypal concept even today, is a sheet (or several sheets) of paper that is sent to a correspondent through a postal system. A letter can be formal or informal, depending on its audience and purpose. Besides being a means of communication and a store of information, letter writing has played a role in the reproduction of writing as an art throughout history. Letters have been sent since antiquity and are mentioned in the Iliad. Historians Herodotus and Thucydides mention and use letters in their writings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter (message)

Examples of use of missive

1. "They didn‘t even acknowledge my missive," he said.

2. One opponent of this new festive missive is Joan Bakewell.

3. What followed was a missive from coach to Board fuming at the improper arrangement.

4. It was US Intelligence that made public the 13–page missive, after all.

5. Gates‘ letter, dated Wednesday, insisted that was not the point of Edelman‘s missive.