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plenipotentiary
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plenipotentiary \Plen`i*po*ten"ti*a*ry\, a. Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers. --Howell.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And what have the Portland Place plenipotentiaries to say about it? ▪ Are they delegates, representatives or plenipotentiaries, for instance? ▪ At both guberniia and central levels the Soviet government established a liaison ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 invest with full power. 2 Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent n. A person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The word plenipotentiary (from the Latin , plenus + potens , full + power) has two meanings. As a noun, it refers to a person who has " full powers ." In particular, the term commonly refers to a diplomat fully authorized to represent a government as a ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government
Usage examples of plenipotentiary.
Burlingame, acting as Minister Plenipotentiary for China, recognized the right of the citizens of either country to visit or reside in the other, specially excluding in both, however, the right of naturalization.
Lady Pastern had been presented with it by some Indian plenipotentiary on the occasion of her first marriage and had clung to it ever since.
Matters were at this point, when, on the 9th of August, Sir Henry Pottinger, the new plenipotentiary, arrived in the Canton waters, accompanied by Sir William Parker, who assumed a command of the fleet in the Chinese seas.
Then, in October, out of the blue, came word from Philadelphia that Adams had been chosen by Congress to return to France as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain, a position he had neither solicited nor expected.
Instead of Murray alone serving as minister plenipotentiary, Adams nominated Patrick Henry and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth to join Murray as envoys to France, making a commission of three.
The count de Neuperg, as Imperial plenipotentiary, signed the preliminaries on the first day of September.
His army was in fact reduced to such a deplorable condition, from the scarcity of provisions and the predatory incursions of the Turcomans, that all hopes of undertaking a winter campaign against Herat were given up, and, despite the remonstrances of the Russian plenipotentiary, the shah led back his forces into Persia.
I afterwards met in Prague the living portrait of that eminent writer in Count Francois Hardig, now plenipotentiary of the emperor at the court of Saxony.
And who do we find in Russia, a good ten years before Napoleon, as plenipotentiary of the House of Savoy, tying bonds with the mystic cenacles of St.
Cromer's titles were Consular Agent and Minister Plenipotentiary even though he was the ultimate power in Egypt for thirty years.
Simultaneously, send your plenipotentiaries to the great rebel Marshals Maarik, Dilin, Lagro, Sarat, Clayd and others.
When I reported the Groaci here ahead of us, I was appointed as Terran Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the confounded place!
Adams offered a letter of explanation, saying he had been chosen by Congress as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate a peace with Great Britain, as well as a treaty of commerce.
He was requested to accept the position of Royal High Minister Plenipotentiary in Total Command of the Universe.
Miss, do you have any idea what an ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary is?