Legatine

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  • adjective. Of, directed by, or authorized by a legate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to a legate.
  • Made by or proceeding from a legate: specifically applied to certain ecclesiastical laws enacted in national synods in England under the presidency of legates from the Pope about the time of Henry III.
  • Also legantine.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a legate.
  • adjective. Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. belonging to a legate
  • adjective. headed by a legate
  • adjective. enacted by a legate
  • Word Usage
    "He erected an office which he called the legatine court; and as he was now, by means of the pope's commission and the king's favor, invested with all power, both ecclesiastical and civil, no man knew what bounds were to be set to the authority of his new tribunal."
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