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‖ mittimus, n.|ˈmɪtɪməs|
[L. mittimus ‘we send’, the first word of the writ in Latin.]
1. Law. A warrant under the hand and seal of a justice of the peace or other proper officer, directed to the keeper of a prison, ordering him to receive into custody and hold in safe-keeping, until delivered in due course of law, the person sent and specified in the warrant.
a1591Greene 2nd Pt. Conny-Catching Wks. (Grosart) X. 132 The knight..bad him [sc. his clerk] make a mittimus to send the Tinker to prison. 1625Massinger New Way v. i, Take a Mittimus, And carry him to Bedlam. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 486 Send him away with a Mittimus to the house of Correction. 1728Vanbr. & Cib. Prov. Husb. v. 98 No words, Sir; a Wife, or a Mittimus. 1764Foote Mayor of G. i. (1783) 15 Some warrants and mittimuses ready fill'd up. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 642, I never sign a mittimus to the house of correction, but had much rather it were done by somebody else. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. vi. i, Clapped in prison by mittimus and indictment of Feuillant Justices. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 320 The heir of an estate often..scarce attained learning enough to sign his name to a Mittimus.
†b. (See quot. 1641.) Obs.
1464Rolls of Parlt. V. 516/1 Doo to be made, oure Writt' of a Mittimus unto the Tresourer and Barons of oure Exchequier. 1641Termes de la Ley 204 Mittimus is a Writ by which Records are transferred from one Court to another. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl., Mittimus, in law, a writ, by which records are ordered to be transferred from one court to another; sometimes immediately, as out of the King's Bench into the Exchequer; and sometimes by a certiorari into the Chancery, and from thence by a mittimus into another court.
c. transf. and fig.
1638Nabbes Cov. Gard. v. vi. 71 Warr... I sweare I understand it no more then Ignoramus himselfe. Ralph. Make his Mittimus and send him to schoole. 1642Bp. Hall Free Prisoner vii. in Three Tractates (1646) 123 Never was there a more close prisoner then my soul is for the time to my body;..which since it's first Mittimus, never stir'd out from this strait room. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxxii. 540 His mittimus is already made for hell. a1708Beveridge Priv. Th. i. (1816) 164 How runs the mittimus, whereby he is pleased to send me to the dungeon of afflictions.
2. colloq. A dismissal from office or situation; a notice to quit (dial.). to get one's mittimus: to be dismissed; also, to get one's ‘quietus’.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden X j b, Out of two Noblemens houses he had his Mittimus of ye may be gone. 1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 88 He had his Mittimus, and took the Left-hand way at parting. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph., Jesuitism 15 Ignatius's black militia..have got their mittimus to Chaos again. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. i. 24 He got his mittimus by one of Schamyl's bullets.
3. A jocular designation for a magistrate.
1630Randolph Conceited Peddler Wks. (1875) 38, I am no Justice of Peace, for I swear, by the honesty of a Mittimus, the venerable Bench ne'er kissed my worshipful buttocks. 1775Sheridan St. Patr. Day ii. ii, Nay, 'tis but what old Mittimus commanded.
Hence ˈmittimus v. trans., to commit to jail by a warrant.
1764Foote Mayor of G. i. (1783) 9 Had I been here, I would have mittimus'd the rascal at once. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. 83, I had mittimused half a dozen paupers for begging about the streets. |