0 a person sent by one government or political leader to another to take messages or to take part in discussions:
1 a person sent by one government or political leader to another to deliver messages or to take part in discussions
The ecclesiastical princes are driven to join in part by self-interest, and in part by the secret papal emissaries.
He hand-picks emissaries who cannot be expected to systematize or even articulate his teachings adequately after he is gone.
The emissary who alerted his brothers to a threat to their custom deserved two to six years in irons.
Proselytizers were ' emissaries of grace ', not workmen of the papal or the royal supremacy (p. 201).
The first was a trans-denominational character whereby its emissaries had intense interactions with other churches.
Buissart sent an emissary to persuade him, and to arrange for printing.
Djonteu, still in the maquis, did not participate in the reconciliation ceremony at feuveuck, but he sent emissaries to attend and give him an account of what had transpired.
That would also protect those emissaries of the state who have the grizzly task of reopening cases that have been closed until then.
