Word Meanings - SUBDELEGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.

INFERIORLY
In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
INFERIOR
Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the
INFERIORITY
The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
SUBORDINATE
1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
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
INSUBORDINATE
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
SUBDELEGATE
A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
CONCERT OF THE POWERS
An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE
The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio.