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embassage arch.|ˈɛmbəsɪdʒ|
Also imb-.
[A variant (in mod. archaistic use more frequent) of ambassage, q.v. In ordinary language superseded by embassy.]
1. The sending or despatch of ambassadors, or of an ambassador.
1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. iii. ii. (1634) 272 That liberal Embassage by which God reconcileth the world to himselfe. 1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. v. (1847) 48 The embassage to Rome may be accounted for. 1881Contemp. Rev. Apr. 569 Thy torrent coursers flee With thunderous embassage to the great Sea.
2. The business confided to, or message conveyed by, an ambassador.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 179 These wordes were..gyuen to hym as the embassage of god. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 440 Let it embassage beare your grieues to show. 1621Quarles Esther (1717) 34 Nor did they question whether..false the Prophet were, that brought th' Embassage. 1821Scott Kenilw. xvii, I had settled to send thee thither upon a secret embassage.
3. The position of an ambassador; ambassadorship.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. ii. §1 (1873) 11 Carneades the philosopher came in embassage to Rome. 1677Govt. Venice 279 To..lessen any thing of the Honours of his Embassage. 1863P. S. Worsley Poems & Transl. 6 So shall my vast renown of embassage Flash wide conviction.
4. A body of persons sent on a mission, or as a deputation, to or from a sovereign, etc.; the ambassador, his retinue, and surroundings.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vii. 139 The Attick ship..Which Cephalus, and his embassage, bore. 1663Marvell Corr. xliv. Wks. 1872–5 II. 92 note, To make me goe along with him Secretary to those Embassages. 1829Scott Anne of G. viii, The members of the embassage. |