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▪ I. delegate, n.|ˈdɛlɪgət|
Also 5 Sc. diligat(e, 7 delegat.
[a. OF. delegat (= mod.F. délégué, Sp. delegado, It. delegato), ad. L. dēlēgāt-us, pa. pple. of dēlēgāre to delegate, used as n. in Romanic, like L. lēgātus.]
1. A person sent or deputed to act for or represent another or others; one entrusted with authority or power to be exercised on behalf of those by whom he is appointed; a deputy, commissioner.
c1380Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 124 Take we heede to þe popes & cardinals..delegates & commyssaries. 1461Liber Pluscardensis xi. viii. (1877) I. 385 His [God's] diligatis dois na thyng heire in vayn. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 252 The delegats of Bishops in temporall iurisdiction..were stil'd Vicedomini. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 47 Taught..by the Holy Ghost speaking in his delegates, in his ministers. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 501 Elect by Jove his delegate of sway. 1876E. Mellor Priesth. vii. 324 He [the priest] claims simply to stand as delegate of heaven.
b. Now chiefly applied to one or more persons elected and sent by an association or body of men to act in their name, and in accordance with their instructions, at some conference or meeting at which the whole body cannot be present.
1600Holland Livy xxxiii. xxiv. 838 There were appointed ten Committees or Delegates [legati]. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 71 The delegates of the several towns and parishes in Cornwal. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. viii. 107 Where there was a district of burghs, each Town Council elected a delegate, and the four or five delegates elected the member. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 78 Sometimes three or more delegates of the workmen meet an equal number of delegates from the masters.
c. A layman appointed to attend an ecclesiastical council (of which the clergy or ministers are ex officio members).
1828in Webster; and in later Dicts.
2. spec.
a. A commissioner appointed by the crown under the great seal to hear and determine appeals from the ecclesiastical courts. These commissioners constituted the Court of Delegates, or great court of appeal in ecclesiastical and Admiralty causes.
1554Act 1–2 Phil. & M. c. 8 §29 All judicial Process made before any Ordinaries..or before any Delegates upon any Appeals. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xiv. lxxiii, In courts of Delegates and of Requests. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 191 The Court of Delegates..wherein all Causes of Appeal by way of Devolution from either of the Archbishops are decided. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 66 The great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes, viz. the court of delegates, judices delegati, appointed by the king's commission under his great seal, and issuing out of chancery, to represent his royal person.
b. In the University of Oxford: A member of a permanent committee entrusted with some special branch of University business; as, the Delegates of Appeals in Congregation and in Convocation, of the University Press, of University Police, etc.
c1604Sir T. Bodley in Reliq. Bodl. (1703) 196 As the Delegates have resolved, there shall be a Porter for the Library. 1660Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 316 In the same convocation, the Delegates' decree was confirmed by the regents and non-regents, scil. that the overplus of the money..should be employed in printing Gregorius Abulpharagus. 1668Clarendon Press MSS., At a Meeting of the Delegats for Printing. 1671Ibid., At a Meeting of y⊇ Delegats for the Physick Garden. 1700Ibid., At a Meeting of y⊇ Delegates for Accts of y⊇ University of Oxford. 1723Ibid., At a Meeting of the Heads of Houses in y⊇ Delegates Room of the Printing House. 1852Rep. Oxford Univ. Commission 15 The Standing Delegacies or Committees, which are appointed for the purpose of managing various branches of University business..There are Delegates of Accounts, of Estates, of Privileges, of the Press, and of Appeals.
3. U.S.
a. The representative of a Territory in Congress, having a seat and the right of speech in the House of Representatives, but no vote. Before 1789 it was the title of the representatives of the various States in the Congress of the Confederation.
1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 52, I was appointed by the legislature a delegate to Congress.
b. House of Delegates: (a) the lower house of the General Assembly in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland; (b) the lower house of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 368/2 The legislature consists of a Senate and a House of Delegates, which are together called the General Assembly of Virginia. Ibid., All laws must originate in the House of Delegates.
▪ II. delegate, ppl. a.|ˈdɛlɪgət|
Also 6–7 Sc. delegat.
[ad. L. dēlēgāt-us, pa. pple. of dēlēgāre to delegate.]
†1. As pa. pple. Delegated, deputed, commissioned.
1530Palsgr. 510/2 The bysshop hath delegate the deane in this mater. 1549Compl. Scot. xiv. 115, I vald god that fuluius flaccus var diligat iuge to puneis them. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 54 Supreme power is delegate from God to every Prince.
2. As adj. Delegated.
1613Milles Treas. Aunc. & Mod. Times 713/2 The King and the Queen with all their Servants and delegate Apostles. a1667Jer. Taylor (J.), Princes in judgement, and their delegate judges. 1828Gunning Cerem. Cambr. 420 The Party Appellant..doth desire the Judges Delegate [Judices Delegati] that they would decree [etc.].
▪ III. delegate, v.|ˈdɛlɪgeɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. dēlēgāre to send, dispatch, assign, commit, f. de- I. 2 b + lēgāre to send with a commission, depute, commit, etc.]
1. trans. To send or commission (a person) as a deputy or representative, with power to transact business for another; to depute or appoint to act.
1623Cockeram, Delegate, to assigne, to send in commission. 1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. ii. ii. 71 Will any man..think it reasonable my Lord Keeper should, ad placitum, delegate whom hee will to keep the Seale? 1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angells 20 Every one from his nativity hath an Angell delegated for his keeper. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. i. i. 10 Commissioners of the Abbot of Dunfermline who had been delegated judge by the pope.
2. To entrust, commit or deliver (authority, a function, etc.) to another as an agent or deputy.
1530Palsgr. 510/2, I delegate myne auctorite, je delegue. 1641R. Brooke Eng. Episc. ii. ii. 72 Can any man think it fit, to Delegate the Tuition or Education of a tender Prince, committed to his Charge? 1774T. Jefferson Autobiog. App. Wks. 1859 I. 138 Those bodies..to whom the people have delegated the powers of legislation. 1873Helps Anim. & Mast. v. (1875) 117, I wish we could delegate to women some of this work. 1883A. L. Smith in Law Reports 12 Q. Bench Div. 95 The defendant delegated to another to utter the slanderous words.
†3. In a looser sense: To assign, deliver. Obs.
1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 74 For this was Published..a Law, and the reason thereof delegated to the Judges..that the Peasants should not sojourne [etc.]. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. I. 310 A number of strange attributes, which by some of the poets were delegated to different personages.
4. Civil Law. To assign (one who is debtor to oneself) to a creditor as debtor in one's place.
1818[see delegant]. 1880Muirhead Gaius iii. §130 When, for example, I enter to your debit what is due me by Titius, provided always he has delegated you to me in his stead. 1887Juta Burge's Comm. Law of Holland 246 It is necessary that there should be the concurrence of the person delegating, that is, the original debtor, and of the person delegated, or the person whom he appoints. |
