| 单词 | envoy extraordinary |
| 释义 | > as lemmasenvoy extraordinary The term envoy extraordinary, formerly denoting a minister charged with a special or temporary mission, is now merely the fuller designation of the ‘envoy’ in the narrower sense = minister plenipotentiary.extracted from envoyn.2envoy extraordinary envoy extraordinary: formerly a minister sent on some special diplomatic business; now, merely the designation of the second class of diplomatic ministers, ranking next to the ‘ambassadors’; the term no longer practically implying a temporary or special mission. The physicians (or surgeons, etc.) extraordinary, in royal households, rank below those styled ‘in ordinary’; similarly an extraordinary professor (Latin professor extraordinarius) in a German university is inferior in status to the ‘ordinary’ professor.extracted from extraordinaryadj.adv.n.< as lemmas |
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