| 单词 | letter of business |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletter of business letter of business n. (a) a letter communicating information of some importance; (in later use) = business letter n. at Compounds 5; (b) Anglican Church (in plural, usually with capital initials) a document formerly issued by the Crown to the English Convocations permitting them to prepare canons on a prescribed subject (now historical). [In quot. 1617 in Moryson's translation of his own Italian original.] ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > document giving legal authority > specific brevea1400 letter of procuracya1425 procuracy1425 letter of attorney1432 allocate1438 procurationc1450 proxyc1460 warrant of attorney1512 letters of procuration1574 promotorial letters?c1633 factory1703 power of agency1710 power of attorney1716 inspectorship deed1861 letter of business1862 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. iii. 160 Now for letters of busines [It. lettre di facende], no man is so blockish that cannot easily dispatch them; when he hath told the businesse, and bid farewell, all is done. But if letters of complement bee not beautified with inuention, they are dull. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 3 Oct. (1970) III. 212 It is a great folly to send letters of business by any friend that requires haste. 1771 Encycl. Brit. I. 620/2 Merchants are provided with a large book..into which is copied verbatim every letter of business before it be sent off. 1862 J. W. Joyce Ecclesia Vindicata v. 211 Royal Letters of Business would be directed from the Crown, requesting the two Convocations to take the necessary measures for the purpose proposed. 1908 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 407 John Paston was a good deal away, and his wife had to send him frequent reports as to business matters... Her letters were thus necessarily, in the first place, letters of business. 2006 Church Times 20 Oct. 21/2 The report made the historic recommendation that Letters of Business be issued to Convocations..to form..modifications relating to the conduct of Divine Worship. < as lemmas |
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