Definition of legate

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Legate (n.) An ambassador or envoy.

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Secondary :: Secondary (n.) One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London..
Caucus :: Caucus (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting..
Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend..
Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.
Mission :: Mission (n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission..
Legatee :: Legatee (n.) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
Delegate :: Delegate (v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
Democracy :: Democracy (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic..
Delegate :: Delegate (n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
Subdented :: Subdelegate (v. t.) To appoint to act as subdelegate, or as a subordinate; to depete..
Relegation :: Relegation (n.) The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile..
Accredit :: Accredit (v. t.) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate..
Ablegate :: Ablegate (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office..
Legatary :: Legatary (n.) A legatee.
Cumulative :: Cumulative (a.) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
Relegated :: Relegated (imp. & p. p.) of Relegat.
Resumption :: Resumption (n.) The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc..
Ablegate :: Ablegate (v. t.) To send abroad.
Delegation :: Delegation (n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates..
Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power..
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