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Delegate :: Delegate (a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge..

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..

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

Legatine :: Legatine (a.) Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate; as, a legatine constitution..

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands..

Legature :: Legature (n.) Legateship.

Legation :: Legation (n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.

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

Delegatory :: Delegatory (a.) Holding a delegated position.

Manipulate :: Manipulate (v. t.) To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns..

Democracy :: Democracy (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic..

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

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..

Vicarial :: Vicarial (a.) Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power..

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..

Relegated :: Relegated (imp. & p. p.) of Relegat.

Accredit :: Accredit (v. t.) To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate..

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

Apocrisiarius :: Apocrisiarius (n.) A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople..

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..

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