Legate: alternatives and connections

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador.

The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador.

A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or t…

A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign af…

Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a governmen…

To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to au…

A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.

Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers.

The mission of an ambassador.

Same as Ambassador.

The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign cou…

To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to…

The office or position of an envoy.

Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.

Alt. of L'envoy