سَاعٍ

act. particle n. of 1. (Msb.) A messenger; a courier, or messenger that journeys with haste; or a messenger on a beast of the post; synonym بَرِيدٌ. (TA.) [See an example at the end of the first paragraph of article ريم.]

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:) plural سُعَاةٌ. (S, * TA.) Mostly, (S, TA,) or when used without restriction, (Msb,) applied to The intendant, or collector, of the poor-rate: plural 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 plural] 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.)

Also A calumniator, or slanderer; [and especially] to the ruler, or magistrate: whence the saying, in a tradition, السَّاعِى لِغَيْرِ رِشْدَةٍ The calumniator is not trueborn: and in another tradition, 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.)