ambassage

ambassage (countable and uncountable, plural ambassages)

1. Obsolete form of embassage (“message, embassy”).
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:

     Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges,
     And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d: […]

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 26”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     To thee I send this written ambassage,
     To witness duty, not to show my wit.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke xiv:32:

     Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.