As a style of furniture, said to be imitative of furniture in the buildings of original Spanish missions to western North America, it is attested from 1900. Synonyms : bear, convey, bring, lift, move, remove, sustain, take, transmit, transport. Meaning "dispatch of an aircraft on a military operation" (by 1929, American English) was extended to spacecraft flights (1962), hence, mission control "team on the ground responsible for directing a spacecraft and its crew" (1964). General sense of "that for which one is sent or commissioned" is from 1670s meaning "that for which a person or thing is destined" (as in man on a mission, one's mission in life) is by 1805.
The diplomatic sense of "body of persons sent to a foreign land on commercial or political business" is from 1620s in American English, sometimes "a foreign legation or embassy, the office of a foreign envoy" (1805). Meaning "an organized effort for the spread of religion or for enlightenment of a community" is by 1640s that of "a missionary post or station" is by 1769. 1590s, "a sending abroad" (as an agent), originally of Jesuits, from Latin missionem (nominative missio) "act of sending, a dispatching a release, a setting at liberty discharge from service, dismissal," noun of action from past-participle stem of mittere "to release, let go send, throw," which de Vaan traces to a PIE *m(e)ith- "to exchange, remove," also source of Sanskrit methete, mimetha "to become hostile, quarrel," Gothic in-maidjan "to change " he writes, "From original 'exchange', the meaning developed to 'give, bestow'. Synonyms for transmit disease to include infect, contaminate, pass infection to, cause disease in, cause infection in, transmit infection to and spread disease to.
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