† nunce Obs.
Also 7 nonce.
[Anglicized form of nuncio or nuncius nuntius, or a. F. nonce.]
= nuncio.
| 1566 in Keith Hist. Ch. Scot. App. ii. 135 Hir Majestie can nocht be empeschit with ony Besines concerning the Nunce. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 420 Pelleuæi..was the Papes nunce. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §44. 498 Two Nunces from the Pope..meete him at Northampton. 1686 Wake Expos. Doctr. Ch. Eng. p. xxxv, The Faculty of Divinity, at the Command of the Nonce,..censured his Propositions. |