+ am bag i no us

[From am bag in is, obs. gen it. of Ambages (q.v.).] Circumlocutory. ( Christian Observer. Worcester.) L Gen.: A me enger, by whomsoever sent. "A wicked me enger falleth into mischief, but a faithful amba ador is health."- Prov . xiii. 17. II. Specially : 1. Lit. A minister of high rank sent on an emba y to represent nominally his sovereign, but really his country, at the court of another monarch, or at the capital of a republic. Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an amba ador as "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth," however correctly it may have described the older school of diplomatists, is now, it is fondly trusted, quite out of date. ( Wotton : Letter to Velserus , A.D. 1612.) Amba adors are of two kinds: extraordinary, employed on special mi ions; and ordinary, who reside permanently at the seat of government to which they are accredited. All the ancient amba adors were of the former cla . In every civilised nation the person of an amba ador is sacred, his mansion also is inviolate, and his retinue subject to no local jurisdiction but his own. An envoy is an inferior kind of amba ador dispatched on a special mi ion. A resident , or chargé d'affaires , is also of le dignity than a proper amba ador. Many such residents exist in India, and represent the Anglo-Indian Government at the courts of the several native rajahs. Consuls are again of inferior rank to residents, and are specially charged to protect and promote the commercial enterprise of their country in the place where they are stationed. Howbeit in the busine of the amba adors of the princes of Babylon who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land 2 Chron. xxxii. 31. the killing of an emba ador."-Black stone: Comment., bk. iv., ch. 6. "An extraordinary amba ador of high rank was instantly dispatched by Lewis to Rome."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. xiv. 2. Fig .: An apostle, regarded as a representative of Christ, sent on a special mi ion to men. "Now then we are amba adors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God."-2 Cor. v. 20.