Search the Dictionary

A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.

Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.

According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.

The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio.

A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.

Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence. The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration. D. Webster. The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell.

mass of a building, considered apart from its wings. -- Corps diplomatique (k Etym: [F., diplomatic body], the body of ministers or envoys accredited to a government.

The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy. Cardinal dean, the senior cardinal bishop of the college of cardinals at Rome. Shipley. -- Dean and chapter, the legal corporation and governing body of a cathedral. It consists of the dean, who is…

The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body. [R.] Burke.

Diplomatic. [R.]

lled in, diplomacy; a diplomat. In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatics whom his country then possessed. Macaulay.

-- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part. The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. Burke.

roduct of the conditions from time to time of international intercourse, being drawn from diplomatic discussion, textbooks, proof of usage, and from recitals in treaties. It is called public when treating of the relations of sovereign powers, and private when of the relations of persons of different nationalities. Inte…

and the persons associated with him in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic minister and his suite; a deputation.

f a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent. An important negotiation with foreign powers. Macaulay.

A diplomatic missive or written communication.

ense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.