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ambassage, embassage|ˈæm-, ˈɛmbəsɪdʒ|
Also imb-.
[At first accented am-, emˈbassage (Sidney, Marlowe, Drayton, Sandys, Quarles, Colvill, Marvell), but ˈembassage in Shakespeare. Of Eng. formation, not found (like passage, message) in Fr. or any Rom. lang., but not formed on a word already in Eng. (like parentage, breakage): see -age. May have been formed on Fr. ambasse (:—L. ambaxia, ambactia), or med.L. vb. ambassāre, ambassiāre, or by simple analogy on ambass-iate (cf. vicariate, vicarage), or by taking ambass- as a verb stem (as if amˈbassate, -et, -ed were pa. pple.). The spelling embassage is more common.]
†1. The sending or dispatch of ambassadors; a mission. Obs.
1569Golding tr. Heminge's Postill. 27 The Ambassage of Christ..when he sayth ‘Go and preache.’ 1596Drayton Leg. i. 785 Who on Ambassage to the Emperor sent. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 150 One deceased by the way,..and the other remained sick..so that ambassage took none effect. 1640Yorke Union of Hon. 39 Knowing his troubles to arise from his Ambassage to the Lady Bona.
2. The message conveyed by an ambassador; the business entrusted to him.
1548Latimer Ploughm. (1868) 26 Troubeled wyth Lordelye lyuynge..burdened with ambassages. 1580Sidney Arcad. iii. 275 Sent this ambassage in versified music. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xxvi, To thee I send this written ambassage. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. v. 1490 Let not my person hinder my Ambassage. 1676Hobbes Iliad ix. 167 That our Ambassage may successful be. 1860Trench Serm. Westm. Ab. xii. 135 He sends the ambassage of his submission.
3. The position, or tenure of office, of an ambassador; ambassadorship.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1245/2 This man..being yet after his ambassage treasuror. 1622Bacon Hen. VII (1860) 385 Urswick, upon whom the king bestowed this ambassage. 1632Pory in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 273 III. 273 His lordship had ended his ambassage with the King of Denmark. 1653Holcroft Procopius i. 15 Rufinus is coming in Ambassage.
4. A body of men sent on a mission, or as a deputation, to or from a sovereign, etc.
1605Play of Stucley (1878) 216 To my royal master Hath honorable ambassage been sent. 1611Bible Luke xiv. 32 Hee sendeth an ambassage [Wyclif, a messanger; Tindale, etc., embasseatours; Rhem. a legacie], and desireth conditions of peace. 1612Bacon Ess. (Arb.) 473 Yonder Men, are too Many for an Ambassage, and too Few for a Fight.
(β) [See more fully under embassage.]
1558Bp. Watson Seven Sacram. xiv. 85 Vsynge as it were hys embassage to exhort you to be reconciled to him. 1663Gerbier Counsel C iv a, Embassages and Negotiations in the Court of forraign Princes. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. vii. 443 Except your embassages have better success.
(γ) With spelling imb-.
1593–1620R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea 194 Ransoming of prisoners, bringing of presents, and other imbassages. |