The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ablegate \Ab"le*gate\, n. (R. C. Ch.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
Ablegate \Ab"le*gate\, v. t. [L. ablegatus, p. p. of ablegare;
ab + legare to send with a commission. See Legate.]
To send abroad. [Obs.]
--Bailey.
Wiktionary
n. (context Roman Catholicism English) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office. vb. (context obsolete English) To send abroad.
Usage examples of "ablegate".
A cardinal had just been created in Australia, and an officer of the Noble Guard had to be sent with the Ablegate to carry the biglietto and the skull-cap.
Around all these autochthons, real and self-imagined, were a score of other figures not less absurd—officers dressed as women and women dressed as soldiers, eclectics as fraudulent as the autochthons, gymnosophists, ablegates and their acolytes, eremites, eidolons, zoanthrops half beast and half human, and deodands and remontados in picturesque rags, with eyes painted wild.