plenipo

Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate with the French.

II. The Character of Mrs. Western. Book VI 1917

I were marched off by the official, his lordship loudly demanding sight of a warrant, and protesting against the illegality of his arrest, varied at moments by threats to appeal to the British consul, minister plenipo.,

The Great K. & A. Robbery Paul Leicester Ford 1883

But that which had perhaps tended more than any thing else to deepen the variance of the kings, was hump-backed Bello's dispatching to Odo, as his thirtieth plenipo, a diminutive little negotiator, who all by himself, in a solitary canoe, sailed over to have audience of Media; into whose presence he was immediately ushered.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

With all haste he dispatched to the hump - backed king a little dwarf of his own; who voyaging over to Dominora in a canoe, sorry and solitary as that of Bello's plenipo, in like manner, received the same insults.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

And so saying, under sufferance of being small, the plenipo was permitted to depart unmolested; for all his bravadoes, fobbing his credentials and affronts.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

He was allowed, moreover, the quantity of plate usually given to ambassadors, whereupon the joke was circulated that he was going "plenipo to the Cherokees."

Life of George Washington — Volume 01 Washington Irving 1821

Lauriston was gone to England as plenipo, to end the dread contest without new effusion of blood: but Paris, like London, teems with hourly false reports, and this intelligence, unhappily, was of the number.

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

Dyer pointed out — of course I have your permission to be plenipo-emendator.

Coleridge & Southey Letters 1794

Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate with the French.

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730

In 1/48, he again went over with his Koyn\ Highness; and soon after the conclusion df the peace, his Lordship was appointed ambassador and plenipo - tentiarj to the French court; being then general in chief of tbe forces in Scotland.

Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812