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ission; 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.

Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender. Milton.

To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Entreaty. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

d making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser.

Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives. The Romans compelled them, contrary to all federal right, . . . to part with Sardinia. Grew.

An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [Obs.] Shak.

ecure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. Constitution of the U. S.

business or storage. Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.

A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight. Shak. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune…

Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.

Obtained by entreaty. [Obs.] Ld. Herbert.

The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty. [Obs.] In way of impertation procuring the removal or allevation of our crosses. Barrow.

Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Containing or expressing entreaty. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note. The inclosed copies of the treaty. Sir W. Temple.

Neglect of execution; nonperformance; as, the inexecution of a treaty. Spence.

The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty. Paley.

Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. "Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom." Dryden. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers…