The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legantine \Le*gan"tine\ (l[-e]*g[a^]n"t[i^]n), a. [Obs.] See Legatine.
Wiktionary
a. (obsolete form of legatine English)
Usage examples of "legantine".
Winchester was deprived of the legantine commission, which was conferred on Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, the enemy and rival of the former legate.
Richard had created chancellor, and whom he had engaged the pope also to invest with the legantine authority, that, by centring every kind of power in his person, he might the better insure the public tranquillity.
Longchamp, presumptuous in his nature, elated by the favor which he enjoyed with his master, and armed with the legantine commission, could not submit to an equality with the bishop of Durham: he even went so far as to arrest his colleague, and to extort from him a resignation of the earldom of Northumberland, and of his other dignities, as the price of his liberty.