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internuncio|ɪntəˈnʌnʃɪəʊ|
Also 7 -tio.
[ad. It. internunzio, in Florio internuntio ‘a messenger that goeth betweene man and man’; ad. L. internuntius (-nuncius): see next.]
1. A messenger between two parties.
1641Milton Animadv. xiii. Wks. (1851) 243 They onely are the internuntios or the go-betweens of this trim devis'd mummery. a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 428 Thoas..being sent from Rhodes by Dinon to Perseus as an internuncio. 1769Burke Corr. (1844) I. 196 Townshend being a mutual friend, and having been..an internuncio between you.
2. An official representative or ambassador of the Pope at a foreign court in an interval during which there is no nuncio, or at a minor court to which no nuncio is sent.
1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. iii. 204 The Abbot was declar'd Internuntio to Brussels. 1682News fr. France 37 The Old resolute Pope sent a Courier to France to the Internuntio with a Bull of Excommunication. 1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4130/2 The Pope's Inter-Nuncio, who resides at Brussels, is lately come hither. 1892J. Morris Cath. Eng. 21 The Internuncio at Brussels wrote to the Propaganda.
3. A minister representing a government, esp. that of Austria, at the Ottoman Porte.
1700Rycaut Hist. Turks III. 195 The Polish Inter-nuntio, who from the beginning of the War had been kept under restraint at Constantinople, was now upon exchange for a Turk of quality, again set at Liberty. 1815Tweddell's Rem. 316 note, The Austrian minister residing at the Othman Porte, with the peculiar title of ‘Internuncio’.
Hence interˈnuncioship, the office or function of an internuncio or go-between.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. 6 Several billets passed between us..by the internuncioship of Dorcas. |