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Legation :: Legation (n.) A legate, or envoy, and the persons associated with him in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic minister and his suite; a deputation..

Legatee :: Legatee (n.) One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

Legate :: Legate (n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical..

Delegate :: Delegate (n.) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution..

Caucus :: Caucus (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting..

Vicegerent :: Vicegerent (a.) Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another..

Relegate :: Relegate (v. t.) To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish..

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.

Accretion :: Accretion (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share..

Co-legatee :: Co-legatee (n.) A joint legatee.

Legate :: Legate (n.) An ambassador or envoy.

Legateship :: Legateship (n.) The office of a legate.

Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power..

Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.

Ablegate :: Ablegate (v. t.) To send abroad.

Cumulative :: Cumulative (a.) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.

Legatary :: Legatary (n.) A legatee.

Delegate :: Delegate (n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting..

Credential :: Credential (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate..

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