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legate (lĕg`ət) [Lat. legare=to send], one sent as a representative of a state or of some high authority. In Roman history a legate was sent by the senate to the provinces as an envoy of the emperor. Sometime during the 12th cent. the word came into use to designate a papal ambassador. There are various types of papal legate, including the legatus a latere, a cardinal commissioned for a special confidential assignment as a representative of the pope; the nuncio or internuncio, who represents the Holy See, both temporally and ecclesiastically, in countries that exchange ambassadors with the Vatican (see nuncio, apostolic nuncio, apostolic (nŭn`shēō), resident legate of the Holy See at the capital of a temporal government. ..... Click the link for more information. ); and the apostolic delegate, a papal representative in a country that does not exchange ambassadors with the Vatican. legate 1. a messenger, envoy, or delegate 2. RC Church an emissary to a foreign state representing the Pope How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Previous studies have demonstrated the primary source by which the public obtains NWS warning information is through television media (Biddle 1994; Legates and Biddle 1999). As a solution, the gating system was changed to a more conventional system with the filter basin, runner bar and legates that were at the parting being moved to the top of the flange. Pope Paschal II (1099-1118) appointed numerous cardinals legates to export the idea of papal monarchy in their travels and, back in Rome, to head curial departments, a practice that persists today. |
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