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Answer for the clue "Delegated, as powers ", 8 letters:
vicarial

Word definitions for vicarial in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a vicar 2 Delegated; vicarious

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vicarial \Vi*ca"ri*al\, a. [Cf. F. vicarial.] Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes. Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a vicar

Usage examples of vicarial.

From close range he had seen them come and go, and he was not easily perturbed by vicarial tempers.

The vicarial voice dropped temporarily into almost inaudible weakness.

Maybe she, being smart as kithfolk usually were, could get a well-paid position in a guild or in the vicarial bureaucracy.