Definition of "permiss" in English

noun

1. A choice that has been permitted.

2. A rhetorical device in which a thing is predicated on the decision of one's opponent.

verb

1. (transitive, nonstandard, rare) To grant permission to; permit

   • The catheter was connected through a forked tube either with electromanometer (or a mercury manometer), or with a pressurized reservoir system through a cock permissing to switch arbitrarily one or the other.