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Credential :: Credential (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate..

Legate :: Legate (n.) An ambassador or envoy.

Legate :: Legate (n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.

Vicariate :: Vicariate (a.) Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious..

Subdelegate :: Subdelegate (n.) A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers..

Collegatary :: Collegatary (n.) A joint legatee.

Legate :: Legate (n.) An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province.

Delegate :: Delegate (v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.

Relegation :: Relegation (n.) The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile..

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..

Legateship :: Legateship (n.) The office of a legate.

Vicegerent :: Vicegerent (a.) Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another..

Legatine :: Legatine (a.) Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power..

Legatee :: Legatee (n.) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

Legature :: Legature (n.) Legateship.

Legation :: Legation (n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.

-ate :: -ate () As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate..

Delegated :: Delegated (imp. & p. p.) of Delegat.

Delegatory :: Delegatory (a.) Holding a delegated position.

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