internuncion.

1622 J. Howson Certaine Serm. i. 21 Certaine Cardinals..interpret the Scriptures onely for the Popes honour, and send abroad their bookes about the world, as the Popes Nuntios, or Internuntios, onely to vphold that monstrous informed double-faced Monarchy.

1645 W. Prynne Hidden Workes Darkenes sig. Dd3^v This Nuntio, (but styled after inter-Nuntio, for not incensing the States) comes hither in May.

1682 News from France 37 The Old resolute Pope sent a Courier to France to the Internuntio with a Bull of Excommunication.

1705 London Gaz. No. 4130/2 The Pope's Inter-Nuncio, who resides at Brussels, is lately come hither.

1799 tr. J.-F. de Bourgoing Hist. & Philos. Mem. Pius VI II. xxi. 90 Pius..drew up two briefs.., and directed his internuncio to deliver them.

1840 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 318/1 The Papal Internuncio had an interview with him on the eve of his decease.

1892 J. Morris Catholic Eng. 21 The Internuncio at Brussels wrote to the Propaganda.

1922 T. J. Burke Competence in Eccl. Tribunals iv. iii. 81 The term, ‘Legates of the Apostolic See’, includes in the present Code, not only nuntios and internuntios, but also Apostolic Delegates.

1966 N.Y. Times 11 Sept. 18/4 The Vatican has appointed Archbishop Mario Cagna, now internuncio in Japan, as its envoy.

2013 E. P. Young Eccl. Colony xi. 253 An internuncio (one step below a nuncio).., replaced the apostolic delegate.

1633 J. Randal Noble Blastus 19 There is no treating with them, [sc. kings] unlesse some great Internuncio be made your friend.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 63 They onely are the internuntio's or the go-betweens of this trim devis'd mummery.

1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 428 Thoas..being sent from Rhodes by Dinon to Perseus as an internuncio.

1722 R. Blackmore Redemption iii. 126 On messages important others fly, Envoys and internuncioes of the sky.

1769 E. Burke Let. 9 Oct. in Corr. (1960) II. 88 Townshend being a mutual friend, and having been..an internuncio between you.

1826 S. T. Coleridge Let. 8 Feb. (1971) VI. 562 A direct and immediate connection with Heaven, with rational Creatures superior in form and glory to man, as the Internuncios.

1863 J. S. Le Fanu House by Church-yard I. iv. 41 Father Roach, still officiating as internuncio, found the dowager less and less impracticable, and at length a treaty was happily concluded.

1936 J. T. Lanning in A. C. Wilgus Colonial Hispanic Amer. xiii. 391 He obtained from the Spanish minister a sanction of the appointment of a commissioner to act as an internuncio between himself and the governor of St. Augustine.

2001 R. Hack Hughes xv. 269 It was the CIA that caused Maheu's appearance in Miami, to act as an internuncio between the CIA..and the Mafia.

1651 Weekly Intelligencer 4 Mar. 82 He was qualified by the King of Scots as an Agent to the Court of the great Turk.., no Ambassador, but onely an Inter-nuntio.., a title of lesse Honour.

1700 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks III. 195 The Polish Inter-nuntio, who..had been kept under restraint at Constantinople, was now..again set at Liberty.

1799 tr. F. von Knobelsdorff in Ann. Reg. 1792 324/2 The undersigned internuncio has too often had an opportunity of admiring in the proceedings of the Sublime Porte.

1815 R. Tweddell in Remains Late J. Tweddell 316 The Austrian minister residing at the Othman Porte, with the peculiar title of ‘Internuncio’.

1845 J. Wolff Narr. Mission to Bokhara I. iv. 128 At Constantinople... The Count and Countess Stürmer, the Austrian Internuntio.., invited me to dine with them.

1931 C. W. Hallberg Suez Canal xi. 150 The Internuncio was directed, however, to make it clear to the Porte that Austria still took a lively interest in the scheme.

2002 K. H. Karpat Stud. Ottoman Social & Polit. Hist. i. 47 Prepared in collaboration with the French ambassador and Austrian internuncio to the Porte and was accepted as a whole by the Ottoman government.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. lii. 305 Several billets passed between us..by the internuncioship of Dorcas.

1989 M. E. De Franciscis Italy & Vatican i. 52 To the delegations at the League of Nations, the Holy See added nine apostolic delegations, three internuncioships, and eleven nunciatures.