سعو ند سعى

سَاعٍ ذ act. part. n. of 1. (Msb.) A messenger; a courier, or messenger that journeys with haste; or a messenger on a beast of the post; syn. بَرِيدٌ. (TA.) [See an ex. at the end of the first paragraph of art. ريم.] ― -b2- Any manager, conductor, orderer, regulator, or superintendent, (S, K,) of a thing, over a people, or party, (S,) or of an affair, and of a people, or party, whatever it be: (K:) pl. سُعَاةٌ. (S, * TA.) Mostly, (S, TA,) or when used without restriction, (Msb,) 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, (K, TA,) from whose opinion, or judgment, they do not deviate, and without whom they do not decide an affair. (TA.) 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. (TA.) ― -b3- 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. (TA.)