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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
legate
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
papal
▪ It is possible that Offa would have liked Ecgfrith to have been consecrated either by the pope or by the papal legates.
▪ Though there were two papal legates, the Council was an Eastern affair, to solve an Eastern problem.
▪ Mr. Banks I have been accused of many things, but never of being a papal legate.
▪ The pope's intention now was for a diet of princes to be convoked - to be chaired by a papal legate.
▪ Alexander Nevski's replies to the papal legates she had by heart.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By September, after meetings with the legate and King Louis, a new agreement had been reached at Nonancourt.
▪ In the halls of power Cistercians became papal confessors and were used by the popes as legates and preachers.
▪ Not for the first time, the legate had shown more enthusiasm for papal power than the pope.
▪ The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power.
▪ The sources of information were the letters, the legates and the local churchmen - all fragile.
▪ They were the legates of conquest.
▪ Though there were two papal legates, the Council was an Eastern affair, to solve an Eastern problem.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legate

Legate \Leg"ate\ (l[e^]g"[asl]t), n. [OE. legat, L. legatus, fr. legare to send with a commission or charge, to depute, fr. lex, legis, law: cf. F. l['e]gat, 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:

    1. 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.

    2. Legati missi, who correspond to the ambassadors of temporal governments.

    3. Legati nati, or legates by virtue of their office, as the archbishops of Salzburg and Prague.

  3. (Rom. Hist.)

    1. An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province.

    2. Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legate

mid-12c., "authorized representative of the Pope," from Old French legat and directly from Latin legatus "ambassador, envoy," originally "provided with a commission," past participle of legare "send as a deputy, send with a commission, bequeath," from lex (genitive legis) "contract, law" (see legal). General sense of "ambassador, delegate, messenger" is from late 14c.

Wiktionary
legate

n. 1 A deputy representing the Pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions. 2 An ambassador or messenger. 3 The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.

WordNet
legate

n. a member of a legation [syn: official emissary]

Wikipedia
Legate

Legate may refer to:

  • Legatus, a general officer of the ancient Roman army drawn from among the senatorial class
  • A member of a legation
  • Papal legate, a messenger from the Holy See
  • Legate (Star Trek), a rank in the Cardassian military in the fictional Star Trek universe
  • A representative, such as an ambassador or envoy
  • jiedushi, regional military governors in imperial China, sometimes translated as "legate"

Usage examples of "legate".

General Cutts is opposed to the new policy at Legate and Sir Ingram Stow has supported him.

Lord Lincoln arrived in Bologna with an introduction for the cardinal legate, who asked him to dinner, and did me the honour of giving me an invitation to meet him.

The cardinal legate, who was ashamed of having had anything to do with such an abandoned prostitute, did his best to have her ordered to leave.

A crowd of aides, Endents, and Legates, all wearing insignia that clearly displayed their seniority and their closeness to the Protector, jostled for position.

Then I noticed a letter lying on the table in front of the legate, and guessed that Facilis had sent it, and that it had been read aloud just before I came in.

She had a special recommendation to the legate, who often visited her, but in the greatest secrecy.

Winchester was deprived of the legantine commission, which was conferred on Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, the enemy and rival of the former legate.

Legate Petre where he sat reading, when I heard a burst of laughter and my name mentioned.

Having wintered in Rome, where he had been joined by the papal legate Adhemar, Bishop of Le Puy, the count had crossed the Adriatic and landed his army at Dyrrachium.

Legate Yonge, and, with five of the men of Sambar Troop, we rode cautiously down to the Imru, past the crawling bodies of the wounded, past the corpses, trying to ignore the pleas for help or even a merciful blade between the ribs.

Tigranocerta had been occupied, Clodius had been given no chance to cultivate the acquaintance of anyone outside the small and untalkative group of legates and tribunes around the General.

Until Tigranocerta had been occupied, Clodius had been given no chance to cultivate the acquaintance of anyone outside the small and untalkative group of legates and tribunes around the General.

In the south, the Ala V Gallorum spent two days under the command of Vespasian, legate of the Ilnd Augusta, subduing Vectis, the island that lay off the coast and was supposed already to have spoken for Rome.

Pope Calixtus, who in his turn was then laboring under many difficulties, by reason of the pretensions of Gregory, an antipope, was obliged to promise that he never would for the future, except when solicited by the king himself, send any legate into England.

Though well provided by the lots with a quaestor in the person of Gaius Publicius Malleolus, the younger Dolabella insisted upon taking none other than Gaius Verres along as his senior legate.