Apocrisiary

Ap`o`cris´i`a`ry


n.1.(Eccl.) A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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You could ask an apocrisiary - a person appointed to give answers - and he would tell you the tongue twister meant a drunken, dishonest politician.
OSTROBOGULOUS; In a word, it's weird or bizarre
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