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单词 mittimus
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mittimusn.

Brit. /ˈmɪtᵻməs/, U.S. /ˈmɪdəməs/
Forms: late Middle English– mittimus, 1800s mittemas (English regional (Yorkshire)). Plural 1600s mittimusses, 1600s–1700s mittimus's, 1700s– mittimuses, 1900s– mittimi (irregular).
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mittimus; Latin mittimus, mittere.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Law French mittimus (1381 and 16th cent. in legal documents) and its etymon classical Latin mittimus ‘we send’, 1st person plural present indicative of mittere to send (see mission n.), the first word of the writ in Latin.
1.
a. Law. A writ ordering records to be sent from one court to another. Obsolete.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writ transferring records to another court
mittimus1443
1443 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 302 Be þer maad a mittimus of þendentures..for þe keping of þe see to þe Tresorer.
1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 516/1 Doo to be made, oure Writt' of a Mittimus unto the Tresourer and Barons of oure Eschequier.
1559 in Registrum vulgariter nuncupatum ‘Rec. Caernarvon’ (1838) 299 Extracts may Forthwith be sent by writt of mittimus vnder the seale of the said Exchequere.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 204 Mittimus is a Writ by which Records are transferred from one Court to another.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Mittimus, in law, a writ, by which Records are ordered to be transfer'd 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.
b. Law. A warrant issued by a justice of the peace, etc., committing a person to custody. Now historical except in U.S.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writ to receive prisoner into custody
mittimus1591
commitment order1850
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. F3v The Knight..bad him [sc. his clerk] make a mittimus to send the Tinker to prison.
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts v. i. sig. M1v Take a Mittimus And carry him to Bedlam.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 486 Send him away with a Mittimus to the house of Correction.
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband v. ii. 98 No words, Sir; a Wife, or a Mittimus.
1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 13 Some warrants and mittimuses ready fill'd up.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 434 I never sign a mittimus to the house of correction, but had much rather it were done by somebody else.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. i. 367 Clapped in prison, by mittimus and indictment of Feuillant Justices.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 320 The heir of an estate often..scarce attained learning enough to sign his name to a Mittimus.
1974 R. Kurz Lethal Gas iv. 37 The subject's Court appointed attorney..has been successful in having the subject's sentence reduced to Natural Life w/o parole. Revised mittimus received 1-16-60.
1987 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 19 Nov. His office has records to prove a mittimus—the document that commits a person to a state correctional institution—was mailed to the Department of Correction records office at Walpole on the morning of Nov. 10, the day after Zobel sentenced Adams.
c. In extended use. Obsolete.
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1638 T. Nabbes Covent Garden v. vi. 71 Warr. I sweare I understand it no more then Ignoramus himselfe. Ralph. Make his Mittimus and send him to schoole.
1644 Bp. J. Hall Free Prisoner vii, in Devout Soul 165 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 roome.
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxxii. 540 His mittimus is already made for hell.
a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) 299 How runs the Mittimus, whereby he is pleasd to send me to the Dungeon of Afflictions?
2. A dismissal from an office or situation; a notice to quit. to get one's mittimus: to be dismissed; (also humorously) to be killed. Obsolete (English regional (Yorkshire) in later use).
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > dismissal or discharge
discharginga1398
discharge1523
quietus est1530
conduction1538
cassing1550
remove1553
destitution1554
mittimus1596
dismissionc1600
quietus1635
removal1645
cashierment1656
separation1779
dismissing1799
dismissala1806
to give (a person) the sack1825
bullet1841
congee1847
decapitation1869
G.B.1880
the shove1899
spear1912
bob-tail1915
severance1941
sacking1958
termination1974
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Xv Out of two Noblemens houses he had his Mittimus of ye may be gone.
1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 88 He had his Mittimus, and took the Left-hand way at parting.
1787 R. Burns Let. 2 Aug. (2001) I. 142 I was in diseased state of body and mind, scarcely to be envied by the hopeless wretches who have just got their mittimus, ‘Depart from me, ye Cursed’.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets 15 Ignatius's black militia..have got their mittimus to Chaos again.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. i. 24 He got his mittimus by one of Schamyl's bullets.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 136/2 Maysther's gannin ti gi Bill his mittimus o' Sethada neet.
3. humorous. (A name given to) a magistrate. Obsolete.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > Justice of the peace or district magistrate
Justice of the Peace1423
justice1509
conservator of the peacea1513
Warden of the Peace1543
Guardian of the Peace1581
mittimus1630
magistrate1727
J.P.1732
beak1799
county commissioner1809
bubble and squeak1935
1630 T. Randolph Conceited Pedlar in 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.
1775 R. B. Sheridan St. Patrick's Day ii. ii Nay, 'tis but what old Mittimus commanded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mittimusv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mittimus n.
Etymology: < mittimus n.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To commit to prison by a warrant.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > commit to custody
commit1425
commise1480
commit1569
remand1593
refera1675
mittimus1764
1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 7 Had I been here, I would have mittimus'd the rascal at once.
1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. 83 I had mittimused half a dozen paupers for begging about the streets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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