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legatine

[ leg-uh-tin, -tahyn ]

/ ˈlɛg ə tɪn, -ˌtaɪn /

adjective

of, relating to, or authorized by a legate.

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Origin of legatine

From the Medieval Latin word lēgātīnus, dating back to 1605–15. See legate, -ine¹

Words nearby legatine

legalize, leganés, legaspi, legate, legatee, legatine, legation, legato, legator, legco, legend

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Example sentences from the Web for legatine

This experiment of investing all the Dominican preachers with legatine authority to condemn without appeal was inconsiderate.
A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I|Henry Charles Lea
At Windsor Wolsey constituted his legatine court to bind the contracting parties by oaths enforced by ecclesiastical censures.
Henry VIII.|A. F. Pollard
The legatine court opened at Blackfriars on the 18th of June 1529, but the final result was certain.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2|Various
Other cases fell within the jurisdiction of the legatine or national ecclesiastical courts; his did not.
Ten Tudor Statesmen|Arthur D. Innes

If your legacy (legatine authority) is a cloak apud homines, it is not apud Deum.
Henry VIII.|A. F. Pollard

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