Emissary

Word EMISSARY
Character 8
Hyphenation em is sa ry
Pronunciations /ˈɛmɪˌsɛɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Emissary"

What do we mean by emissary?

An agent sent on a mission to represent or advance the interests of another. noun

Emitting; sending out; furnishing an outlet.

Of or pertaining to one sent on a mission; exploring; spying.

A person sent on a mission, particularly a private mission or business; an agent employed for the promotion of a cause or of his employer's interests: now commonly used in a bad or contemptuous sense, and usually implying some degree of secrecy or chicanery. noun

An outlet for water; a channel by which water is drawn from a lake: as the emissary of the Alban lake. noun

In anatomy, that which emits or sends out; a vessel through which excretion takes place; an excretory or emunctory: chiefly used in the plural. Also emissarium. noun

Exploring; spying. adjective

Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls. adjective

An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. noun

An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else. noun

A venous channel in the skull. noun

Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else noun

An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.

A venous channel in the skull.

An underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Emissary

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The word "emissary" in example sentences

When Frank Merriam arrived at room 622 of the Ambassador Hotel for his audience with J.F.T. O'Connor, the emissary from the White House, the possibility that President Roosevelt might actually express support for his candidacy, once so farfetched it was laughable, now seemed within reach. ❋ Greg Mitchell (2010)

I†™ m an emissary from a highly technological civilization and I†™ ve been sent to talk to the Leaf People. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In his latest, he remembers Audrey Hepburn 14 years after her death: "In the 40 years between Hollywood's make-believe headlines and the horrifying reality of Somalia, Hepburn as actress and woman seemed an emissary from a finer world than ours." ❋ Unknown (2007)

That spring, an emissary from the English came to Kahnawake. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

But he wasn't one to press too hard, so he had no worries as he drove the several miles from his office to the Tashreeya area of Baghdad, near the old Cabinet Building, where an emissary from the President met him and instructed him to leave his car. ❋ Unknown (2002)

W.T. took his hat off and bowed to her with as much ceremony as if she had been an old-time marquise and he an emissary from the English Court. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. N 50021032-1 (1975)

MR. JOHN C.M. MACBETH: Gentlemen of The Empire Club: We are happy to welcome today an emissary from the office of the British High Commissioner at Ottawa, who is going to address us on the subject "Dunkirk to Dieppe and Beyond." ❋ Unknown (1942)

The shade of the tendrilled creeper steals into a room and lies along the floor, an emissary from the plant outside that peers in but cannot enter. ❋ Unknown (1917)

He had posed as an emissary from the Dutch brethren, son of an exiled ❋ John Buchan (1907)

We were received by the Duc de Levis and the Comtesse de Chavannes; there was also a Prince Somebody, and an emissary from the Pope waiting for an audience. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)

Her royal choice was yet unknown to the public; and the promise which would have betrayed her falsehood and levity, was stolen by a dexterous emissary from the ambition of the patriarch. ❋ Unknown (1206)

It was not perhaps the best choice of a resting-place that Eleanor could have made; for it was a sure and certain fountain-head of gossip; but she was in no mood to care for that just now, and desired above all things, not to take shelter in any house where a message or an emissary from the Lodge or the Priory would be likely to find her; nor in one where her proceedings would be gravely looked into. ❋ Unknown (1864)

A local leader, Abu Shair, meeting an emissary from the rebel headquarters in Damascus, who bore a list of people to be assassinated during the uprising, told Da’ud al-Husayni: ❋ Unknown (2009)

The emissary was a high-level White House aide, deeply involved with the president's legislative efforts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although they both call the emissary a “man of God” (a term for a prophet) until he reveals his divine identity (v. 20), she senses at once something otherworldly about him (v. 6) and does not, as Manoah later does, ask about his ineffable name. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Look," called the emissary to Del Mar, spying the Dodge boat with the naturalist in it, skimming rapidly after them. ❋ Unknown (1908)

Jewish mobility's given up and evaluated that were by the order of State Treasury in Zagreb No. T. 65 from January 14th,1943, given to Mr. Raguz Ilija, the head emissary of the Head Directory for associations and social care of the Ministry of Interior, respectively authorized in writing to MM Osrecki Albert and Ilija Dabelic from Vukovar, and to Petar Persic as an emissary, that is a Secretary of the Central Board for refugees, as follows:

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