سَاعٍ
Root: سعو
Full Definition
2 Any manager, conductor, orderer, regulator, or superintendent, of a thing, over a people, or party, or of an affair, and of a people, or party, whatever it be: pl. سُعَاةٌ. Mostly, or when used without restriction, applied to The intendant, or collector, of the poor-rate: pl. as above. (S, Msb, TA. [See رَكِيبٌ.]) And particularly The headman of the Jews and Christians, from whose opinion, or judgment, they do not deviate, and without whom they do not decide an affair. And [the pl.] سُعَاةٌ signifies Persons who take upon themselves responsibility for the prevention of the shedding of blood, and for the stilling of sedition, or discord, or the like; because they labour in the reforming, or amending, of the circumstances subsisting between parties.
3 Also A calumniator, or slanderer; [and especially] to the ruler, or magistrate: whence the saying, in a trad., السَّاعِى لِغَيْرِ رِشْدَةٍ The calumniator is not trueborn: and in another trad., السَّاعِى مُثَلِتٌ [The calumniator of another to the ruler is a trebler of evil]; meaning that he destroys, by his calumny, himself, and the calumniated, and the ruler.
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