legatine
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of legatine
From the Medieval Latin word lēgātīnus, dating back to 1605–15. See legate, -ine 1
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That year, however, Alexander returned to Rome, and felt himself strong enough to send the exiled primate a legatine commission.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt
Gilbert, now old and infirm, had resigned the see of Limerick, and with it his legatine commission.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Hugh Jackson Lawlor
Wolsey's proposal for leaving the matter to a legatine court found better favour; but when the commission reached England it was found to be "of no effect or authority."
From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green
The expiration of his legatine commission of 1144 deprived him of much of his power.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Urban V., on this account, sent him vested with legatine power to Bologna, where the nobility and people were miserably divided.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
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