It certainly does mean minister, but only a Minister of State, which a minister plenipotentiary is not. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
Not that it would upset Alex-my husband, that is, the plenipotentiary-to be hailed as the rightful King when he returns. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Washington's many rôles was to act as a kind of plenipotentiary and interpreter between his people and the dominant race. From Wordnik.com. [Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization] Reference
We have ministers plenipotentiary residing with the. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Let her be considered our plenipotentiary-extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Switzerland has created a plenipotentiary mission to this. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
German foreign ministry plenipotentiary representative in Belgrade. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Majesty through the minister plenipotentiary of the United States in. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Switzerland and in England, was appointed minister plenipotentiary in. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The king one day asked the Ferrarese plenipotentiary at his court how. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
The envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary from the United. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Washington, D.C., until 1811, when he became American plenipotentiary to. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
He sent one plenipotentiary to Mexico, and another to Perú, Chile and Argentina. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Bolivar, the Liberator] Reference
He applied to Sir John Bowring, the British plenipotentiary at Hong Kong, for assistance. From Wordnik.com. [Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor] Reference
Lewis, his forerunner and plenipotentiary, was the dread and hate of the alarmed tenants. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
The treaty concluded by our own plenipotentiary will immediately be submitted to the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
President had received an envoy-extraordinary and minister - plenipotentiary from that State. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
There was no American plenipotentiary empowered to make any political compact with the Islanders. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
This proposition was properly rejected by the American plenipotentiary on the day it was submitted. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Bolivia, Ecuador, and Honduras are now represented by resident envoys of the plenipotentiary grade. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
But even with this distribution among the heavenly bodies the moon was allowed plenipotentiary sway. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
At a more recent date a minister plenipotentiary from the Hanseatic Republics of Hamburg, Lubeck, and. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Since the last session of Congress we have received an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from that. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
General Dix, as before stated, was United States minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary at the court of France. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and remained at the head of the grand-ducal government until 1867, when he became plenipotentiary for the two. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Ambassador at Washington, M. Jules Cambon, having been specially appointed "plenipotentiary to negotiate and sign," by decree of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Though by law Mrs. Clinton cannot formally appoint her husband to a federal job, she can make him an informal ambassador plenipotentiary. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage Tax] Reference
Even the Republic of Florence sought to profit by Alexander's relations with Giulia; for Puccio, her brother-in-law, was sent to Rome as plenipotentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
In 1877, Dr. Blyden was made minister plenipotentiary of the Republic of Liberia at the Court of St. James and was received by Her Majesty July 30, 1878. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Still, in some ways, he is a throwback to the old days of the ambassador plenipotentiary — the type of envoy whose word was imperial writ in far-flung places. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man in Afghanistan] Reference
And you, persuaded, chose him as plenipotentiary, although the year before you rejected him after he was chosen Strategus, not thinking him well disposed to the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Some years after the failure of this ridiculous project of M. de Choiseul, the Prince-bishop of Spire appointed him his minister plenipotentiary at the Court of France. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
State was credited with nine; and, of these, one, a minister plenipotentiary, received twelve thousand dollars, and seven ministers resident, seventy-five hundred each. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
A treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce has in the course of the last summer been concluded by our minister plenipotentiary at Mexico with the united states of that. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
I think he must have risen to about his height of unceremonious informality at a Peace dinner in London when he sat next to the plenipotentiary from Serbia, to whom he remarked. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
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