1. An embassy. "He sent a solemn embassage." Bacon.
Except your embassages have better success.
Motley. 2. Message; errand. Shak.
Embassy
(Em"bas*sy) n.; pl. Embassies [OF. ambassée, embascée, LL. ambasciata, fr. ambasciare
for ambactiare to go on a mission, fr. L. ambactus vassal, dependent, of Celtic or German origin; cf.
W. amaeth husbandman, Goth. andbahts servant, G. amt office, OHG. ambaht. Cf. Ambassador.]
1. The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a
public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.
He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees.
Jer. Taylor. 2. The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.
3. The residence or office of an ambassador.
Sometimes, but rarely, spelled ambassy.
Embastardize
(Em*bas"tard*ize) v. t. [Pref. em- + bastardize.] To bastardize. [Obs.]
Embathe
(Em*bathe") v. t. [Pref. em- + bathe. Cf. Imbathe.] To bathe; to imbathe.
Embattail
(Em*bat"tail) v. t. [See Embattle.] To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.
[Archaic]
To embattail and to wall about thy cause
With iron-worded proof.
Tennyson. Embattle
(Em*bat"tle) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embattled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Embattling ] [OF. embataillier; pref.
em- (L. in) + F. bataille battle. See Battle, and cf. Battlement.] To arrange in order of battle; to array
for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
One in bright arms embattled full strong.
Spenser.
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
Emerson. Embattle
(Em*bat"tle), v. i. To be arrayed for battle. [Obs.]
Embattle
(Em*bat"tle), v. t. [See Battlement.] To furnish with battlements. "Embattled house." Wordsworth.
Embattled
(Em*bat"tled) a.
1. Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Her.) Having the edge broken like battlements; — said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the
like.
3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie.
Embattlement
(Em*bat"tle*ment) n.
1. An intended parapet; a battlement.
2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
