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‖ adelantado|aðelanˈtaðo|
[Sp., substantive use of pa. pple. of adelantar to advance, promote, f. adelante before, forward, f. ad to, at + el the + ante before.]
A Spanish grandee; a lord-lieutenant or governor of a province.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 99 As complete an Adelantado, as he that is known by wearing a cloak of tuft-taffeta eighteen years. 1610B. Jonson Alchemist iii. iii. (1616) 641 [He is] an Adalantado, A Grande. 1783Robertson Amer. I. 258 Ferdinand..appointed him Adelantado, or Lieutenant-governor of the countries upon the South Sea. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. ii. 62 Marquez, nephew to the Adelantado. |