foreign missionn.
/ˌfɒrᵻn ˈmɪʃn/, /ˌfɒrn̩ ˈmɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌfɔrən ˈmɪʃən/, /ˌfɑrən ˈmɪʃən/ 1. A Christian mission conducted in a foreign country. Cf. home mission n.
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1686 tr. D. Bouhours Life St. Ignatius iv. 255 Simon Rodriguez..passionately desir'd to be imploy'd in Foreign Missions [Fr. missions étrangères].
1796 Missionary Mag. 1 92 The funds for foreign Missions are not considerable.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 515/2 In 1882 the amount raised by British contributions alone to foreign missions amounted to upwards of £1,900,000.
1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies (1938) xiii. 205 If you practised a little more Christianity yourself we might be more willing to subscribe to your foreign missions and Boy Scouts and organ funds.
2000 Church Times 25 Feb. 14/4 There was an efflorescence of lay activism..manifest in Sunday schools and home and foreign missions.
2. A permanent diplomatic establishment, embassy, or legation in a foreign country.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > diplomat > collectively > accredited to specific court or capital
corps diplomatique1796
foreign service1799
mission1805
foreign mission1819
1819 Morning Post 10 Aug. The British Government..can have no control over any regulations that the Netherland, or any Foreign Mission, may judge it expedient to adopt for granting their passports.
1887 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 9 Oct. 10/3 In 1884 he was elected a member of the state senate.., which position he held until his appointment to the foreign mission.
1977 Private Eye 13 May 7/3 The foreign mission which serves booze in limitless quantities is the Russian Embassy in Islamabad.
2000 Monitor (Kampala) 28 Apr. 2/2 MPs were not happy about the action which follows the recent closure of about 10 foreign missions.
Compounds
Often with capital initials. General use as a modifier (in sense 1), as in foreign mission society, foreign mission station, foreign mission work, etc.
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1815 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 11 Apr. The sum of 30,000 dollars bequeathed to the Foreign Mission Society.
1818 N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 212 Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a native of Owhyhee, and a member of the Foreign Mission School.
1887 Church Scotl. Home & Foreign Mission Rec. Nov. 275/1 Their highly esteemed Secretary..has volunteered to go forth into the Foreign Mission field.
1912 Outlook of Missions Jan. 38/1 The professors and students were seriously considering the support of a Foreign Mission station.
1948 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 14 Apr. 3 A large Aberdeen church congregation gave last year an average of a halfpenny a head to foreign mission funds.
2002 Atlanta (Georgia) Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 24 Apr. (Home ed.) I have been involved in foreign mission work since 1995 through my church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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