Definitions for emissary

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emissary em·is·sar·y

Spelling: [em-uh-ser-ee]

IPA: /ˈɛm əˌsɛr i/

Emissary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in emissary (aeimrssy).

Definitions for emissary

noun

1. a representative sent on a mission or errand:
2. an agent sent on a mission of a secret nature, as a spy.
3. Anatomy. sending or coming out, as certain veins that pass through the skull and connect the venous sinuses inside with the veins outside.
4. pertaining to an emissary.

adjective

1. Archaic. sent forth, as on a mission.

Origin of emissary

1595-1605; Latin ēmissārius one sent out, equivalent to ēmiss- (see emission) + -ārius -ary

Examples for emissary

Could he be an emissary from some one whom the old forger had reason to evade?

Fearlessly this emissary of love penetrates the realms of despair.

At 22, the Brooklyn-based Lubavitchers sent him as a kind of emissary to Oxford.

The FBI has described Mostafa as an emissary for Zawahiri in Somalia.

Jamal tried to visit the al Qaeda master in Pakistan, he writes, but had to send an emissary instead.

The emissary and compadre of Hernandez spurred his horse close up.

Through an emissary, he asked to be paid $3,000 for the interview.

When the emissary phoned him to say the fee had been refused, he said he had meetings and could not talk.

Or—harking back to her original theory—that he was an emissary from Scotland Yard?

I am no more than the emissary of Her Majesty—it is to her that your thanks are due.