单词 | nuntius |
释义 | nuntiusn. 1. Originally Theatre. A messenger. Cf. nuncio n. 2, nuncius n. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger erendrakec825 bodec888 apostlec950 sand1038 sandesman1123 sanderbodec1200 bearer?c1225 errand-bearer?c1225 messenger?c1225 erindeberea1250 sand-manc1275 beadsman1377 herald1377 messagea1382 runnera1382 sendmana1400 interpreter1490 nuntius1534 post1535 pursuivant?1536 nuncius1573 nuncio1587 carrier1594 nunciate1596 mercury1597 chiaus1599 foreranger1612 postera1614 irisa1616 missivea1616 chouse1632 angela1637 caduceator1684 purpose messenger1702 errand-bringer1720 harkara1747 commissionaire1749 carrier pigeon1785 errander1803 errand-porter1818 tchaush1819 card carrier1845 errand-goer1864 choush1866 ghulam1882 1534 (?a1500) Shearmen & Taylors' Pageant in H. Craig Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays (1957) 31 Enter Nuntius. 1565 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc (front matter) Names of speakers... Nuntius, A Messenger of thelder Brothers deth. Nuntius, A Messenger of Duke Fergus rysynge in Armes. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. B4v Nuntius, a Fawneguest Messenger twixt Maister Bird and Maister Demetrius. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Mm2v The Imagination is an Agent, or Nuntius . View more context for this quotation 1621 J. Taylor Goose sig. C2v The Gooses Quill..Was found to be the fittest Instrument To be their Nuntius. a1652 R. Brome City Wit iii. iv. sig. D5v, in Five New Playes (1653) Sent you not a Nuntius, or a Messenger for me, intimating, that it was his Grace his instant desire, to entertain me as his Instructor? a1700 J. Dryden Hind & Panther in Wks. (1885) X. 189 The messenger with speed the tidings bore..But heaven's own Nuntius was arrived before. 1940 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 34 652 The function of the agent should not be confused with that of the messenger (nuntius). 1990 P. L. Mariani Salvage Operations iv. iii. 174 Paperwhite, little slip of wafer, crumpled nuntius trembling in my hand. 2. = nuncio n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > secretary apocrisiary?a1475 nuncio1512 ledger1548 nunce1566 responsal1570 nuntiusc1600 c1600 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1896) I. 243 Parsons procured Archer the Jesuite to be nuntius for Ireland. 1826 R. Heber Let. 18 Feb. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) II. xxvii. 376 The patriarchs..send round..suffragan bishops, and even archbishops, with commissions and characters not very unlike the 'nuntii' of the court of Rome. 1903 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 410 The papal nuntius presses every lever and turns every screw. 1996 Catholic World (Nexis) Jan. 13 Ordained bishop in 1976, he served as papal nuntius first in Madagascar and then in Turkey. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > member of in Poland nuncio1684 nuntius1713 1713 London Gaz. No. 5093/2 The Chamber of the Nuntii or Deputies, sat upon that Matter. 1850 ‘Talvi’ Hist. View Lang. & Lit. Slavic Nations 239 (footnote) A single nuntius opposed and annulled by his liberum veto the united resolutions of the whole convention. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 288/1 The nuntii..were the deputies returned by the various districts of the palatinates. 1968 K. Cekalska tr. A. Gieysztor in A. Gieysztor et al. Hist. Poland vi. 145 The land diets..chose two plenpotentiaries or regional deputies (nuntii terrestres) to attend the deliberations of the provincial and general assemblies.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1534 |
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