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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Transmit(t, v. [Late ME and e.m.E. transmitte (a1400-50), transmit (1629), L. transmittere.] To pass on; send; transfer. — 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 9.
He took it to be a race … of peaple who transmitted it [sc. lameness] hæreditarly to their posterity 1691 Dumfriesshire Valuation Bk. 9 June.
[The Lt.-Col. of Militia] thinks fitt that there be ane lyne transmitted to the counsell craveing that [etc.] 1681 Stair Inst. iii i § 2.
The debtor … cannot without consent of the creditor, liberate himself and transmit his obligation upon another 1695 Acts IX 435/1.
If a depredator … should transmitt an opulent estate thereby to the heir [etc.]
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