issue
/ˈɪʃʉw/ noun, verb
Forms issues issuing issued
- noun (military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
- noun (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts. “The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.”
- noun (medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
- noun (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children. “He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.”
- noun (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
- noun (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
- noun (now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
- noun (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- verb (intransitive) To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. “The water issued forth from the spring.”
- verb (intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth. “The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.”
- verb (intransitive) To extend into, to open onto. “The road issues into the highway.”
- verb (intransitive) To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- verb (intransitive, archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
- verb (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- verb (transitive) To send out; to put into circulation. “The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.”
- verb (transitive) To deliver for use. “The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.”
- noun (derogatory) A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.
Synonyms
sortie sally charge descendant fruit of one's loins offspring begive number topic subject matter issuing issuance military issue government issue return take takings proceeds yield payoff consequence effect outcome result event upshot progeny emergence egress
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Etymology
From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”).
The legal meaning originated from the concept of "the end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presenting the point to be determined by trial)," leading to the sense of "the controversy over facts in a trial" (early 14th century, Anglo-French). This later extended to mean "a point of contention between two parties" (early 15th century) and more generally, "an important point to be decided" (1836). Consequently, the verbal phrase take issue with emerged in 1797 (preceded by join issue in the 1690s), meaning "to adopt an affirmative or negative stance in a dispute with another." The expression to have issues, meaning "to have unresolved conflicts," dates to 1990.
From Free (“not enslaved”) Issue (“progeny”), "an antiquated designation for descendants of enslaved people who were freed before the Civil War", later applied to Monacans because Virginia laws for a time required births to be registered as either "White" or "Colored", erasing Indians, and clerks later haphazardly classified Monacans (even from the same mother and father) as "Mixed Indian", "Negro", or "Issue".
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
- noun The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.
- verb To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
- verb To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
Etymology [OF. issue, eissue, F. issue, fr. OF. issir, eissir, to go out, L. exire; ex out of, from + ire to go, akin to Gr. i., Goth. iddja went, used as prefect of gaggan to go. Cf. Ambition, Count a nobleman, Commence, Errant, Exit, Eyre, Initial, Yede went.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “issue”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details