Mission

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To send on a mission.

II. Mission ·noun Dismission; discharge from service.

III. Mission ·noun An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.

IV. Mission ·noun An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.

V. Mission ·noun That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.

VI. Mission ·noun Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an Embassy.

VII. Mission ·noun The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

VIII. Mission ·noun 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.