LEGATED
Verb
legated
simple past tense and past participle of legate
Anagrams
• agleted, gelated, teagled
Source: Wiktionary
LEGATE
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