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/mˈɛsədʒ/ /mˈɛsɪdʒ/ Listen

noun

Message n.

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. "Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee."

Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message.

Message shell. See Shell.

Message n. A messenger. (Obs.)

verb

Message v. t. To bear as a message. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Message'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Message" Quotes from Famous Books

... grimly. "But it cuts no ice. There is another point. After this report was made out, a message reached me from Miss Halley, as a result of which I visited Mr. Quentin Gray ...

— Dope • Sax Rohmer

... Lord Clarendon wrote to him, sending a sort of message from the French Court (through Madame de Montjoie) expressive of a hope that a conciliatory disposition would prevail; to which he responded in a strain of insolent invective against France and her designs, saying that her object was ...

— The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) - A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 - (Volume 1 of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... Referring to my message of the 1st of February last, transmitting to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and the United States of Colombia for the construction of an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Panama ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant • James D. Richardson

... for word, and looked like an angel when she said so. I replied that I would certainly deliver her message, but that I must not remain, for fear of Mr. Trevannion finding me with her, as he ordered ...

— The Privateer's-Man - One hundred Years Ago • Frederick Marryat

... Shortly after breakfast a message was brought to me that Mr Abney would like to see me in his study. I went without any sense of disaster to come. Most of the business of the school was discussed in the study after breakfast, and I imagined that the matter had to do with some detail ...

— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse

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