Word Meanings - ENVOY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat. (more info) in) + voie way, L. via: cf. F. envoi an envoy . See 1. One dispatched

Additional info about word: ENVOY

An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat. (more info) in) + voie way, L. via: cf. F. envoi an envoy . See 1. One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador. 2. Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENVOY)

• Deputy
• Vicegerent
• lieutenant
• representative
• agent
• commissioner
• legate
• envoy
• delegate
• proxy
• substitute

Related words: (words related to ENVOY)

• LEGATESHIP
  The office of a legate.
• LEGATE
  commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. légat, 1. An ambassador or envoy. 2. An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See. Note: Legates are of three kinds: Legates a latere, now
• LEGATEE
  One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• DELEGATE
  delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See 1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. One elected by the people of a territory to
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL
  . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
• DEPUTY
  1. One appointed as the substitue of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
• LIEUTENANTRY
  See LIEUTENANCY
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• REPRESENTATIVE
  Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
• ENVOYSHIP
  The office or position of an envoy.
• REPRESENTATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
• LIEUTENANTSHIP
  See 1
• VICEGERENT
  Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. Milton.
• ENVOY
  An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat. (more info) in) + voie way, L. via: cf. F. envoi an envoy . See 1. One dispatched
• PROXY
  The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. Burrill. (more info) 1. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity. I have no
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• SUBDELEGATE
  A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• ABLEGATE
  To send abroad. Bailey.
• CO-LEGATEE
  A joint legatee.
• SUBAGENT
  A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
• PROLEGATE
  The deputy or substitute for a legate.