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Ambassat, -ate, n. Also: ambassait, ambassit, ambacit. [ME. ambassate (1419), ambasset, -it, med.L. ambassata. Cf. Ambassiat(e.]

1. An ambassador; an embassy. 1467 Acts II. 90/1.
That thar be send ane ambassate … in Denmark … to avis … vppone the mariage of our souerain lord 1473 Ib. 104/1.
Thai think expedient that his solemnit Ambassat … be send … to the duke of Burgunȝe 1478 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 410.
To pay … to the contributioun of our souerane lordis ambassate 1513 Doug. viii. iii. 108.
Nothir by ambassat, message, nor writingis, Nor othir craft, thy frendschip first socht I 1531 Bell. Boece I. 281.
The secund ambassat [was] to pas to Etius, Capitane of France, … with this epistill 1561 Treas. Acc. XI. 94.
Item, … to my lord James, ane chene of gold, … to the ambassait of Sawoy 1570 Reg. Morton I. 61.
Thair is ane Taxatioun grantit … for making of the expenssis of the honorabill ambassat 1573 Sempill Sat. P. xxxix. 108.
My Lord Ambassat, to, stuid uerry neir

2. The office or function of ambassador. 1516 Reg. Privy S. I. 411/2.
Robert, Bischop of Ross, quhilk passis in the kingis ambassate and service to the king of France and uther princes 1533 Ib. II. 202/2.
To pas in our ambassate and service to the partis beȝond sey 1560 Acts II. 605/2.
That honorable personis be send in ambassat fra & on behalf of the estatis