What's the difference between emissary and emissaryship?

Emissary


Definition:

  • (n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
  • (a.) Exploring; spying.
  • (a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The drainage blockade is active and located just inside the tunica albuginea at the origin of the emissary veins.
  • (2) There has been no dialogue between the Chinese government and emissaries of the Dalai Lama since 2010.
  • (3) Key figures are Frank Lowenstein, Kerry’s special emissary for Middle East peace, and David Makovsky, an expert from the Washington Institute thinktank who specialises in the highly-complex mapping work that will be crucial to any land swaps.
  • (4) The anatomic connections of the head with the mediastinum through extensions of the deep cervical fascia, and the intracranial venous sinuses connected through emissary veins to the facial veins, make infections of this region the most dreaded.
  • (5) Brown, meanwhile, was exploring the possibility of sending Brazil's Lula as an emissary to broker an agreement between industrialised economies and the developing world.
  • (6) On Sunday, after the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected the government’s application for an emergency stay, Pence was sent as an emissary from the White House to several talkshows.
  • (7) A small foramen in the squamous part of the occipital bone just behind foramen magnum was noticed for the passage of emissary vein in one skull only, probably connecting occipital sinus with suboccipital venous plexus.
  • (8) The anatomy of the posterior condylar emissary vein is discussed, and the general evaluation of a patient with objective, pulsatile tinnitus is reviewed.
  • (9) The "emissary" is situated either along the right or left contour of the base of the common ventricle, its dimensions are variable.
  • (10) The emissary veins of the islet seem to serve for the quick conveyance of insular secretions into general circulation.
  • (11) And I thought, that's a good advertisement for death, for the emissary of death.
  • (12) Even as president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on TV her plan to nationalise Spanish-owned YPF, her emissaries were at the oil company's 35-storey Buenos Aires headquarters giving its Spanish directors 15 minutes to leave the building.
  • (13) Photograph: EPA Rael – once known as Claude Vorilhon, a French-born amateur sports racer and journalist – changed his name in 1973 after what he says was an encounter with extraterrestrials who declared that he had been chosen as their emissary to deliver a message of joy to humankind.
  • (14) "The vast lazy planes that floated overhead were emissaries from another world."
  • (15) Anderson has gone so far as to screen the movie for Tom Cruise, Scientology's chief emissary to the normals.
  • (16) Sir Denis Wright, an earlier UK ambassador to Iran, was chosen as emissary.
  • (17) Plain radiographs immediately after perfusion revealed prompt escape of dye into the systemic veins via a number of large transcortical emissary veins.
  • (18) Athens has set up a crisis management team, sent an emissary to the Middle East, contacted governments across the region and used its considerable contacts with the Syrian opposition in a bid to shed light on the clerics' whereabouts.
  • (19) Cerebral angiograms showed (1) the occluded confluence sinuum and compensatory venous collaterals, (2) venous drainage through the persistent falcial sinus, which was rare in an adult, from the straight sinus into the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), (3) venous drainage through diploic veins and emissary veins into scalp veins.
  • (20) In three patients, no blood flow could be detected in the ophthalmic emissary veins whereas in the fourth patient as well as in both control subjects, blood flowed from the intracranium to the face.

Emissaryship


Definition:

  • (n.) The office of an emissary.

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