Trans-mīt’, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. TRANSMITTED; p. pr. & vb. n. TRANSMITTING.] [Lat. transmittere, from trans, across, over, and mittere, to send; Fr. transmettre, Sp. transmitir, trasmitir, It. trasmettere.]
Sense 1. To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; as, to transmit a letter or a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money or bills of exchange from one city or 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.
Sense 2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit electricity.