| 单词 |
embassade |
| 释义 |
embassade Obs. or arch.|ɛmbəˈseɪd|
Also 5 enbassed, enbassade, 7 Sc. embassaid.
[See ambassade, of which this is a less frequent var.]
1. The mission or function of an ambassador; = ambassade 1.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. iii. 32 When you disgrac'd me in my Embassade. 1601Holland Pliny 491 P. Iunius, and T. Coruncanus..were put to death, notwithstanding they came in embassade to her.
2. A body of persons (or a single person) sent on a mission, or as a deputation, to or from a sovereign; an ambassador and his suite; = ambassade 2.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccliii. 325 Also this same yere cam a grete enbassade in to englond. 1494Fabyan iv. lxvi. 45 He sente to hym an enbassed. Ibid. iv. lxxv. 53 An Embassade shuld be made vnto the Kynge of lytell Brytayne. 1551in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. i. ii. ix. 320 Upon coming of great embassades or foreign princes.
3. The message sent or delivered by an ambassador; = ambassade 3.
1508Fisher Seven Ps. Ps. cxliii. ii. (1529) R i b They fered to shewe thyne enbassade. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 57 In this counsell..they consult of embassaids.
4. quasi-adv. On an embassy. rare.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxix. [ccxv.] 677 Howe the frenche kyng..had sente a knyght of honour embassade to hym. 1596Spenser Hymne Beautie 252 But when her words embassade forth she sends. |
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