Crossword clues for emissary
emissary
- Soon to overlook Liberal, about to overlook messenger
- Single female in troubled year as agent
- Bad year in which to lose an agent
- Diplomatic agent
- Diplomat having bad year without girl
- Ambassador, e.g
- Spy on a mission, e.g
- Special messenger
- Someone sent on a mission
- Government messenger
- Diplomatic corps figure
- Go-between
- Representative
- Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
- Legate
- Diplomatic representative
- Villain beat up a knight, gatecrashing banquet
- Messenger to fail, coming in before time without first of letters
- English teacher cautious in absence of head delegate
- English girl: a railway representative
- English girl fairly regularly visited diplomat
- Wasted year framing young female agent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emissary \Em"is*sa*ry\, a.
Exploring; spying.
--B. Jonson.(Anat.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
Emissary \Em"is*sa*ry\, n.; pl. Emissaries. [L. emissarius, fr. emittere, emissum, to send out: cf. F. ['e]missaire. See Emit.] 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.
Buzzing emissaries fill the ears
Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears.
--Dryden.
Syn: Emissary, Spy.
Usage: A spy is one who enters an enemy's camp or territories to learn the condition of the enemy; an emissary may be a secret agent appointed not only to detect the schemes of an opposing party, but to influence their councils. A spy must be concealed, or he suffers death; an emissary may in some cases be known as the agent of an adversary without incurring similar hazard.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from French émissaire (17c.) or directly from Latin emissarius "a scout, a spy," literally "that is sent out," from emissus, past participle of emittere "send forth" (see emit).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else. 2 (context anatomy English) A venous channel in the skull.
WordNet
n. someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else [syn: envoy]
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ "Emissary" is the first and second episodes, comprising the pilot, of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
A new crew takes command of a distant space station and makes an astonishing discovery that will change the galaxy.
Emissary may refer to:
- Ambassador
- Apostle (disambiguation)
- Diplomat
- The Subspace Emissary, the single-player Adventure Mode in the video game Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Emissaries (album), an album by black metal group Melechesh
- Emissary (comics), an Image comic by Jim Valentino
- Emissary (hydraulics), channel by which an outlet is formed to carry off any stagnant body of water
- Emissary veins, valveless veins which normally drain the intracranial venous sinuses to veins on the outside of the skull
- Emissary (Internet Software), an early Internet Suite
- The Emissary (TV series), 1982 Hong Kong TV series
In Star Trek:
- Benjamin Sisko, called the Emissary by the Bajorans
- "Emissary" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- "The Emissary" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a second-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Emissary is a fictional superhero published by Image Comics. Created by Jim Valentino, he first appeared in Emissary #1, (May 2006).
Emissary was a popular early commercial internet suite from Attachmate for Windows. It featured a web browser, FTP support, e-mail program, a newsreader program, and an HTML editor.
Though once considered a popular internet suite, but it fell out of favor after Internet Explorer 3 was released. Development was abandoned following the Microsoft antitrust case.
An emissary (Latin emissarium, from ex and mittere, to send out) is a channel, natural or artificial, by which an outlet is formed to carry off any stagnant body of water. Such channels may be either open or underground; but the most remarkable works of the kind are of the latter description, as they carry off the waters of lakes surrounded by hills.
In ancient Greece, the most remarkable examples are the subterranean channels that carry off the waters of Lake Copais into the Cephisus, which were partly natural and partly artificial; and those built about 480 BC by Phaeax at Agrigentum in Sicily to drain the city: they were admired for their sheer size, although the workmanship was crude.
The ancient Romans excelled in the construction of emissaries, as in all their hydraulic works, and remains are extant showing that lakes Trasimeno, Albano and Nemi were all drained by means of emissaries. The case of Lake Fucino is remarkable in two ways: the attempt to drain it was one of the rare failures of Roman engineering, and the emissary is now completely above ground and open to inspection. Julius Caesar is said to have first conceived the idea of this stupendous undertaking ; Claudius inaugurated what was to have been a complete drainage scheme (Tac. Ann. xii.57), but the water level dropped by just 4 meters and stabilized, leaving the lake very much there. Hadrian tried it again, but failed; and it was not until 1878 that Lake Fucino was finally drained.
The need for emissaries did not cease with Antiquity, of course, and modern examples abound.
The initial text of this article was an abridgment from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875 edition, public domain).
Usage examples of "emissary".
Constantine should be rendered incapable of the throne: her emissaries assaulted the sleeping prince, and stabbed their daggers with such violence and precipitation into his eyes as if they meant to execute a mortal sentence.
It was a concession to the circumambient enemy, of whom even a good friend was apart, and not better than a respectful emissary.
My height and strength so enraptured the emissaries of the king, that in the middle of the service before the altar, as I was reading mass, they tore me away without regarding the prayers and outcries of my flock.
Bonescrolls as an emissary to the Serbota, and later it served the eth as a psychic factotum.
He now noticed, however, that furtive, furcating cracks kept appearing in his physical well-being, as if inevitable decomposition were sending out to him, across static gray time, its first emissaries.
Then the king became impatient for there were other things to think about: there was just time to go to the mews to inspect one of his favorite gerfalcons, who was ailing, before he had to receive an emissary from Burgundy.
Their scarlet-cloaked emissaries of death went forth to do the bidding of the Magus of the Sons of Yezm, and kings died in Luxur, in Python, in Kuthchemes, in Dagon.
Via Mozza, he found Mini entertaining a lavishly gowned emissary from the Duke of Ferrara.
The withdrawal of the former, with his troops, from the region of country which they had so lately covered, was the signal for that rising of the loyalists upon the Pedee, to instigate which the unfortunate emissary of General Leslie had been dispatched from Charleston.
They had also been off Puget Sound, but had not gone inland, and brought Vancouver word that Don Quadra, the Spanish emissary, sent to restore to England the fort from which Meares, the trader, had been ousted, had arrived at Nootka on the other side of the island, and was waiting.
He wrote that he was hopeful of agreement once Monsieur Randan, the French emissary for peace, could get instructions from Mary of Guise.
Whose emissaries knock at every door In rhythmal rote, and groan the great events The hour is pregnant with?
Since his first visit there Tom Ryfe, in person or through his emissaries, had watched the place strictly enough to have become familiar with the habits of its inmates.
Walden Thar is at present on tour as aide to the Ryke emissary, Liacan.
The sums distributed by her emissaries with a lavish hand silenced every objection, and the profusion sufficiently proved the affinity, or at least the resemblance, of Bassianus with the great original.