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delegatory, a.|ˈdɛlɪgətərɪ| [ad. L. dēlēgātōri-us, f. dēlēgātor: see prec. and -ory.] Of or relating to delegation; of the nature of delegation or delegated power; † of a person, holding delegated authority.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe in Harl. Misc. (1808–13) VI. 170 (D.) Some politique delegatory Scipio..whom they might depose when they list. 1615Crooke Body of Man 42 No where doth he attribute any delegatory power of Sensation vnto it. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. III. 547 This jurisdiction was conferred on him by the see of Utrecht, which the Emperor..had invested with a delegatory authority. 1787A. Hilditch Rosa de Mont. I. 62 The decrees of an immutable providence, and its delegatory laws on earth. |