• (British) IPA: /ˈmɪtɪməs/

mittimus (plural mittimuses or mittimi)

1. (legal, archaic, outside, the US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book IV:

2. A writ for moving records from one court to another.
   • 2013, Mark Morgenstein, Suspect in prisons chief's death may have been freed 4 years early, CNN (March 31, 2013), :

     Next, sometimes the same clerk, but often a second clerk, who may not have been in the courtroom, types up the mittimus, the formal court order that directs corrections offers^[sic] to commit someone to prison, and something could get lost in translation there.

3. A formal dismissal from a situation.