OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 24242

errand

/ˈɛɹənd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mandado • recado
The purpose of such a journey.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query…
recado
An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
I had not taught thee then the alphabet Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set And bound up, might with speechless secrecy Deliver errands mutely and mutually.
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