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Noun- A warrant of commitment to prison.

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Usage examples (33)
  • Basset, and soon learned from him, that he had a mittimus to commit
  • His captor then demanded the mittimus, which he tore into small pieces, and scattered around.
  • Vnde mittimus in Angliam literas domini imperatoris super hijs patentes, vobis & cæteris amicis nostris beneuolis.
  • His mittimus ran for Treason; but hee is out upon bayle.
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