Quick note, though I have no sources to quote at the moment:
"Agency" stems from the latin "augere" which means "to augment", supposedly to mean that the agent was someone who augmented the power and reach of Rome. I don't know why OED doesn't have that in their entry.
I will be back with the source if I can find it.
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On 27/09/2014, at 23:12, Ken Friedman wrote:
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> From the Oxford English Dictionary, online edition:
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> “agent, n.1 and adj.”. OED Online. September 2014. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/3859?rskey=yJEJHI&result=1&isAdvanced=false (accessed September 27, 2014).
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