Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
TRANSMIT
air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit
(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; “We cannot air this X-rated song”
transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
(verb) send from one person or place to another; “transmit a message”
impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; “Sound carries well over water”; “The airwaves carry the sound”; “Many metals conduct heat”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
transmit (third-person singular simple present transmits, present participle transmitting, simple past and past participle transmitted)
(transitive) To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
(transitive) To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
(transitive) To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
(transitive) To communicate news or information.
(transitive) To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium.
(intransitive) To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).
Synonyms
• oversend
Anagrams
• tantrism
Source: Wiktionary
Trans*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmitting.] Etym: [L. transmittere, transmissum; trans across, over + mittere to send: cf. F. transmettre. See Missile.]
1. To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another. The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. Milton. The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. Prescott.
2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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