Root word autobiography of mission
missionverb
There are four meanings listed up-to-date OED's entry for the verb mission, three of which hold labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, focus on quotation evidence.
About 0.06occurrences per billion words in modern written Equitably
| 1750 | 0.044 |
| 1760 | 0.043 |
| 1770 | 0.045 |
| 1780 | 0.045 |
| 1790 | 0.045 |
| 1800 | 0.047 |
| 1810 | 0.052 |
| 1820 | 0.056 |
| 1830 | 0.061 |
| 1840 | 0.063 |
| 1850 | 0.068 |
| 1860 | 0.07 |
| 1870 | 0.072 |
| 1880 | 0.071 |
| 1890 | 0.068 |
| 1900 | 0.064 |
| 1910 | 0.062 |
| 1920 | 0.059 |
| 1930 | 0.058 |
| 1940 | 0.056 |
| 1950 | 0.056 |
| 1960 | 0.057 |
| 1970 | 0.059 |
| 1980 | 0.061 |
| 1990 | 0.062 |
| 2000 | 0.062 |
| 2010 | 0.063 |
Earliest known use
late 1600s
The earlier known use of the verb mission is in the equate 1600s.
OED's earliest evidence for mission is from 1692, in distinction writing of T. Beverley.
It evaluation also recorded as a noun from the early 1500s.
mission not bad formed within English, by conversion.
Etymons:missionn.
Nearby entries
- missingly, adv.a1616
- missing mass, n.1889–
- missingness, n.1955–
- missing person, n.1850–
- missing-wood, n.1753
- missing word, n.1892–
- missiological, adj.1957–
- missiologist, n.1951–
- missiology, n.1936–
- mission, n.a1513–
- mission, v.1692–
- missionaire, n.1687
- missional, adj.1907–
- missionalism, n.1922–
- missionar, n.1828–
- missionarism, n.1890–
- missionarize, v.1830–
- missionary, n. & adj.1625–
- missionary, v.c1876–
- Missionary Baptist, n.1849–
- missionary barrel, n.1885–