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.


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