Top Definitions
Quizzes
Examples

legatine

[ leg-uh-tin, -tahyn ]

/ ˈlɛg ə tɪn, -ˌtaɪn /

adjective

of, relating to, or authorized by a legate.

QUIZZES

LEARN THE SPANISH WORDS FOR THESE COMMON ANIMALS!

Are you learning Spanish? Or do you just have an interest in foreign languages? Either way, this quiz on Spanish words for animals is for you.

Question 1 of 13

How do you say “cat” 🐈 in Spanish?

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of legatine

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

Words nearby legatine

legal weight, Leganés, Legaspi, legate, legatee, legatine, legation, legato, legator, leg before wicket, leg-break

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021

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

Writing Help Is HERE