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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..

Legature :: Legature (n.) Legateship.

Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Consociation :: Consociation (n.) A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united..

Subdelegate :: Subdelegate (n.) A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers..

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

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

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..

-ate :: -ate () As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate..

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

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

Ablegate :: Ablegate (n.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office..

Prolegate :: Prolegate (n.) The deputy or substitute for a legate.

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

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

Delegate :: Delegate (n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

Legate :: Legate (n.) Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province..

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..

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..

Mission :: Mission (n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission..

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