Word Meanings - LEGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. légat, 1. An ambassador or envoy. 2. An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See. Note: Legates are of three kinds: Legates a latere, now

Additional info about word: LEGATE

commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. légat, 1. An ambassador or envoy. 2. An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See. Note: Legates are of three kinds: Legates a latere, now always cardinals. They are called ordinary or extraordinary legates, the former governing provinces, and the latter class being sent to foreign countries on extraordinary occasions. Legati missi, who correspond to the ambassadors of temporal governments. Legati nati, or legates by virtue of their office, as the archbishops of Salzburg and Prague. An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province. Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEGATE)

• Deputy
• Vicegerent
• lieutenant
• representative
• agent
• commissioner
• legate
• envoy
• delegate
• proxy
• substitute

Related words: (words related to LEGATE)

• LEGATESHIP
  The office of a legate.
• LEGATE
  commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. légat, 1. An ambassador or envoy. 2. An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See. Note: Legates are of three kinds: Legates a latere, now
• LEGATEE
  One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• DELEGATE
  delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See 1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. One elected by the people of a territory to
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL
  . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
• DEPUTY
  1. One appointed as the substitue of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
• LIEUTENANTRY
  See LIEUTENANCY
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• REPRESENTATIVE
  Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
• ENVOYSHIP
  The office or position of an envoy.
• REPRESENTATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
• LIEUTENANTSHIP
  See 1
• VICEGERENT
  Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. Milton.
• ENVOY
  An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat. (more info) in) + voie way, L. via: cf. F. envoi an envoy . See 1. One dispatched
• PROXY
  The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. Burrill. (more info) 1. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity. I have no
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• SUBDELEGATE
  A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• ABLEGATE
  To send abroad. Bailey.
• CO-LEGATEE
  A joint legatee.
• SUBAGENT
  A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
• PROLEGATE
  The deputy or substitute for a legate.