Obs. Forms: 4–5 ambassatrye, -trie, -drie, embassadrye, 5–6 embassadrie. [a. Fr. ambassaderie; f. ambassadeur: see -RY.] The office or function of an ambassador; ambassadorship.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Man of Lawes’ T., 135. By tretys and ambassatrye [v.r. embassadrye, -drie] They ben acordid.
c. 1450. Henryson, Mor. Fab., 35. The Wolfe is better in Ambassadrie than I.
1538. Leland, Itin., III. 120. Cumming from his Embassadrie out of Italie.
