Part 3843

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[F. <ets>envoi</ets>, fr. <ets>envoyer</ets> to send.]</ety> <def>An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, <i>l'envoi</i>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>envoy</b> of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. <i>Skeat.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Envoyship</h1> <Xpage=499>

<hw>En"voy*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The office or position of an envoy.</def>

<h1>Envy</h1> <Xpage=499>

<hw>En"vy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Envies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[F. <ets>envie</ets>, L. <ets>invidia</ets> envious; akin to <ets>invidere</ets> to look askance at, to look with enmity; <ets>in</ets> against + <ets>videre</ets> to see. See <er>Vision</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Malice; ill will; spite.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>If he evade us there, Enforce him with his <b>envy</b> to the people. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by <i>of</i>; <as>as, they did this in <ex>envy</ex> of C\'91sar</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Envy</b> is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. <i>Ray.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his <b>envy</b> more. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Envy</b>, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Emulation; rivalry.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous <b>envy</b>. <i>Ford.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Public odium; ill repute.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To lay the <b>envy</b> of the war upon Cicero. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An object of envious notice or feeling.</def>

<blockquote>This constitution in former days used to be the <b>envy</b> of the world. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Envy</h1> <Xpage=499>

<hw>En"vy</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Envied</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Envying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>envier</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.</def>

<blockquote>A woman does not <b>envy</b> a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. <i>Collier.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Whoever <b>envies</b> another confesses his superiority. <i>Rambler.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.</def>

<blockquote>I have seen thee fight, When I have <b>envied</b> thy behavior. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Jeffrey . . . had actually <b>envied</b> his friends their cool mountain breezes. <i>Froude.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.</def>