legate, official emissary
(noun) a member of a legation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Legate (plural Legates)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Legate is the 27185th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 890 individuals. Legate is most common among White (95.51%) individuals.
• Teagle, eaglet, gelate, teagle, telega
legate (plural legates)
A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
An ambassador or messenger.
The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.
legate (third-person singular simple present legates, present participle legating, simple past and past participle legated)
(transitive) To leave as a legacy.
• Teagle, eaglet, gelate, teagle, telega
Source: Wiktionary
Leg"ate, n. Etym: [OE. legal, L. legatus, fr. legare to sent with a commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. légat, It. legato. See Legal.]
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: (a) 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. (b) Legati missi, who correspond to the ambassadors of temporal governments. (c) Legati nati, or legates by virtue of their office, as the archbishops of Salzburg and Prague.
3. (Rom. Hist.) (a) An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province. (b) Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
