Missionnoun
(countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
Passionnoun
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.
‘We share a passion for books.’;
Missionnoun
(uncountable) Religious evangelism.
Passionnoun
Fervor, determination.
Missionnoun
(in the plural, "the missions") third world charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
Passionnoun
An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
‘It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.’;
Missionnoun
(countable) (Catholic tradition) an infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
Passionnoun
sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional
‘We shared a night of passion.’;
Missionnoun
A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
Passionnoun
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
Missionnoun
(obsolete) dismissal; discharge from service
Passionnoun
A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
Missionnoun
A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
‘Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.’;
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
‘a cardiac passion’;
Missionverb
(transitive) To send on a mission.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; opposed to action.
Missionverb
do missionary work, proselytize
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Missionnoun
The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
‘Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves.’;
Passionnoun
(obsolete) An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.
Missionnoun
That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
‘How to begin, how to accomplish bestHis end of being on earth, and mission high.’;
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
‘He will again be well: if much you note him,
You shall offend him and extend his passion:’;
Missionnoun
Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy; as, the Russian mission to the United Nations.
‘In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house.’;
Passionverb
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Missionnoun
An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
Passionverb
(transitive) To give a passionate character to.
Missionnoun
An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
Passionnoun
A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
‘To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs.’;
Missionnoun
A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
Passionnoun
The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.
‘A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.’;
Missionnoun
Dismission; discharge from service.
Passionnoun
Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
‘Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter.’;
Missionverb
To send on a mission.
Passionnoun
The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
‘We also are men of like passions with you.’; ‘The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently understood, without considering the affections and passions, or those modifications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil.’; ‘The term passion, and its adverb passionately, often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste - a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything.’; ‘The bravery of his grief did put meInto a towering passion.’; ‘The ruling passion, be it what it will,The ruling passion conquers reason still.’; ‘Who walked in every path of human life,Felt every passion.’; ‘When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.’;
Missionnoun
an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
Passionnoun
Disorder of the mind; madness.
Missionnoun
an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters;
‘the planes were on a bombing mission’;
Passionnoun
Passion week. See Passion week, below.
Missionnoun
a special assignment that is given to a person or group;
‘a confidential mission to London’; ‘his charge was deliver a message’;
Passionverb
To give a passionate character to.
Missionnoun
the organized work of a religious missionary
Passionverb
To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Missionnoun
a group of representatives or delegates
Passionnoun
strong feeling or emotion
Passionnoun
intense passion or emotion
Passionnoun
something that is desired intensely;
‘his rage for fame destroyed him’;
Passionnoun
an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Passionnoun
a feeling of strong sexual desire
Passionnoun
any object of warm affection or devotion;
‘the theater was her first love’; ‘he has a passion for cock fighting’;
Passionnoun
the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion
Passionnoun
strong and barely controllable emotion
‘a man of impetuous passion’;
Passionnoun
a state or outburst of strong emotion
‘oratory in which he gradually works himself up into a passion’;
Passionnoun
intense sexual love
‘their all-consuming passion for each other’; ‘she nurses a passion for Thomas’;
Passionnoun
an intense desire or enthusiasm for something
‘the English have a passion for gardens’;
Passionnoun
a thing arousing great enthusiasm
‘modern furniture is a particular passion of Bill's’;
Passionnoun
the suffering and death of Jesus
‘meditations on the Passion of Christ’;
Passionnoun
an account of the Passion from any of the Gospels.
Passionnoun
a musical setting of any of the biblical accounts of the Passion
‘an aria from Bach's St Matthew Passion’;
