delegaten.
/ˈdɛlᵻɡət/, /ˈdɛlᵻɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈdɛləɡət/, /ˈdɛləˌɡeɪt/ 1.
a. A person sent or appointed as deputy or representative for another or others, having the authority to act or take decisions on their behalf.
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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > delegate
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ledger1606
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 229 (MED) Hugh, by the grace of God bysshoppe of lincolne, j. & b., abbotes of seynt alban & of stratford, delegates in the causes of pope celestine þe iij.
a1500 Liber Pluscardensis (Marchm.) (1877) I. 385 His [sc. God's] diligatis dois na thyng heire in bayn.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 252 The delegats of Bishops in temporall iurisdiction..were stil'd Vicedomini.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 3 The worthless delegates of his power, whose merit it was made sacrilege to question.
1876 E. Mellor Priesthood vii. 324 He [sc. the priest] claims simply to stand as delegate of heaven.
2015 J. A. McCoy Still & Quiet Conscience (e-book ed.) Archbishop Pio Laghi, the papal delegate to the United States..informed him that the Holy See would like to visit the Seattle archdiocese.
b. A person who attends a meeting, conference, forum, etc., esp. one who is elected or appointed to represent a particular association or other body, and who is authorized to vote, take decisions, etc., on their behalf. Also as a title, preceding a surname.
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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiii. xxiv. 838 There were appointed ten Committees or Delegates [L. legati].
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 71 The delegates of the several towns and parishes of Cornwal.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 107 Where there was a district of burghs, each Town Council elected a delegate, and the four or five delegates elected the member.
1916 Proc. 25th Convent. United Mine Workers Amer. 950 The chair decides that the motion offered by Delegate Watkins is not in order.
2019 Australian (Nexis) 9 Apr. 4 Delegates at the AWU [= Australian Workers Union] national conference on the Gold Coast are being asked to back a new membership fee model.
c. Christian Church. A lay person elected or appointed to attend an ecclesiastical council alongside clergy or ministers who are ex officio members.
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1785 B. Bartlett Remarks Proc. Episcopal Convent. Amer. Constit. 3 The Clergy and Lay Delegates, according to appointment, met at New-York, and passed those ill-judged resolves, which served to delay the business till next year.
1861 Rep. Case Rev. W. Long 135 I was requested to hold a meeting of my parishioners to appoint a delegate to the synod.
1901 Proc. 77th Ann. Convent. Evangelical Lutheran Synod W. Pennsylvania 17 One week prior to the time of the meeting of our last General Synod, one of the laymen elected as delegate from this Synod wrote me of his inability to go.
2019 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 16 Mar. Cara Nicklas served as a lay delegate to the recent General Conference gathering [of the United Methodist Church].
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a. Usually with capital initial. A commissioner appointed by the Crown to hear appeals, principally from the ecclesiastical courts. Now historical.See also Court of Delegates at sense 2b.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of appeal or review > types of
chequer-chamber1528
Court of (the) Delegates1554
exchequer-chamber1640
quarter sessions1661
Judicial Committee1833
society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [noun] > of appeal
Court of (the) Delegates1554
1554–5 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 8 §9 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 248 All Judiciall Processes made before any Ordinaries..or before any Delegates upon any Appeales.
?1713 W. Whiston Reasons for not proceeding against Mr. Whiston (ed. 2) 1 You, Sir, procur'd the Lord Chancellor to appoint a Court of Delegates, which is the last usual Resort in Causes of Appeal... The Delegates appointed, were, the Bishops of Winton, Bath and Wells, [etc.].
1878 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 3 749 While the Delegates were proceeding with it, Searle moved in the Common Pleas for a prohibition.
1993 B. Till York against Durham 6 The Dean and Chapter had in October appealed to the Delegates who issued an inhibition against the Archbishop.
b. Court of (the) Delegates; sometimes also High Court of Delegates: a court of appeal principally hearing cases from the ecclesiastical courts. Now historical.Under the Submission of the Clergy Act 1533, commissioners were appointed to deal with appeals from the Archbishops' courts which had previously gone to Rome; these commissioners came to be known as the Court of Delegates. The court also heard appeals from the Court of Admiralty, the university courts, and the Court of Chivalry. It was abolished in 1833 and its jurisdiction transferred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. f. 101v/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I The same thirde daye in the afternoone is the court of the Delegates and of the Queenes highnesse Commissyoners vpon appeales kept in the same place.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 66 The great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes, viz. the court of delegates, judices delegati, appointed by the king's commission under his great seal, and issuing out of chancery, to represent his royal person.
1833 Legal Observer 6 498/2 The recommendation of the ecclesiastical commissioners for the transfer of appeals from the High Court of Delegates to the Privy Council..expressly refers to the presence of a Civilian Judge.
2002 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 74 108 The case against [Dr.] Free..was..delayed while legal technicalities were resolved in the secular courts of King's Bench and the House of Lords and in the ecclesiastical Court of Delegates.
3. In the University of Oxford: a member of any of various permanent committees responsible for a particular area of university business, as in the Delegates of the University Press, the Delegates of Appeals in Congregation (or Convocation), etc.
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a1613 Sir T. Bodley Let. in Reliquiæ Bodleianæ (1703) 196 As the Delegates have resolved, there shall be a Porter for the Library.
1671 Clarendon Press MSS At a Meeting of ye Delegats for the Physick Garden.
1723 Clarendon Press MSS At a Meeting of the Heads of Houses in ye Delegates Room of the Printing House.
1852 Rep. Oxf. Univ. Comm. 15 The Standing Delegacies or Committees, which are appointed for the purpose of managing various branches of University business..There are Delegates of Accounts, of Estates, of Privileges, of the Press, and of Appeals.
2006 Edge (Malaysia) (Nexis) 25 Sept. OUP [= Oxford University Press] is managed by a body of elected representatives called Delegates of the Press, who are all members of Oxford University.
4. U.S. A person chosen to represent a particular colony, state, territory, etc., in a congress, legislature, or other assembly.
a. Originally: a representative to any of the Continental Congresses (1774–6), or, subsequently, the Congress of the Confederation (1781–9). Later: a representative of a territory or federal district in the House of Representatives, having the right to speak, introduce legislation, etc., but no right to vote on proposed legislation.There are currently six non-voting members of the House of Representatives: delegates representing American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, D.C., along with the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
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1774 Jrnls. Continental Congr., 1774–89 (Libr. of Congr.) (1904) I. 15 That Major John Sullivan, and Colo. Nathaniel Folsom..be appointed..as delegates, on the part of this province, to attend and assist in the General Congress of delegates from the other Colonies.
1777 Act Confed. Art. 5 Delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress [etc.].
1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 47 I therefore returned home, where I arrived on the 15th. of May, 1783. On the 6th. of the following month I was appointed by the legislature a delegate to Congress.
1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant 34 I am a Congressional Delegate from Cherokee Strip.
2019 Virgin Islands Daily News (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands) (Nexis) 2 Apr. Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett is repeating a call for the territory to determine its political future.
b. A voting participant at a party's national convention. Cf. superdelegate n. 2.
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1830 Amer. Mercury 22 Nov. 3/1 Effecting, at a future period, a National assemblage of delegates at the City of Washington, to adopt measures for the promotion of Mr. Clay's election.
1832 (title) Summary of the proceedings of a convention of Republican delegates, from the several states in the Union, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of Vice-President of the United States.
1941 L. M. Shaw State Iowa Official Reg. 1941–2 No. 39 32 Mitchell, Richard F., Fort Dodge...Was a delegate to the democratic national convention at Houston in 1928.
2014 J. C. Archer et al. Atlas 2012 Elections 31/3 Primary elections and caucuses were held in each state to select delegates to the Republican National Convention.
Phrases
House of Delegates n.
U.S.
a. The lower house of the legislature in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland.
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1700 All Laws of Maryland 78 Be it further Enacted.., that the Clerk of the House of Delegates for the time being transcribe the Journal of the said House within two Months after the Prorogation or Dissolution of any Assembly.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 368/2 The legislature consists of a Senate and a House of Delegates, which are together called the General Assembly of Virginia.
1917 (title) Legislature of West Virginia. Bills of the House of Delegates of regular and extra sessions.
2019 Capital (Annapolis, Md.) (Nexis) 9 Apr. The Maryland House of Delegates opened the final day of the 2019 General Assembly with black cloth over Michael E. Busch's desk.
b. The lower house of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
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1824 H. U. Onderdonk Let. to Wardens & Vestry Christ Church Cincinnati 25 There are now sixteen Dioceses in union with the General Convention. Any nine, consequently, can control the proceedings of the House of Delegates.
1848 E. C. Seaman Ess. Progress Nations v. 109 The assemblies of the Presbyterian, and most other protestant churches, are composed of clerical and lay delegates, like that of the house of delegates of the Episcopal church.
2013 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 24 Mar. 2 b The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the Episcopal Church's house of delegates.
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delegateadj.
/ˈdɛlᵻɡət/, U.S. /ˈdɛləɡət/, /ˈdɛləˌɡeɪt/ΚΠ
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 18v (MED) Þu shale mow see þe veynez & þe arteriez & þe neruez, how þai bene ramified & delegate i. sent [L. delegantur] to þe partiez byneþforþ.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 136v (MED) Somtyme it [sc. stinking of breþe] is made for cause comonicate & delegate [L. delegatam] fro þe brayne, þe stomac & fro þe breste.
2. That is appointed to act on behalf of another person or group; delegated; commissioned. Frequently as postmodifier, esp. in judge delegate.In quot. c14601 as past participle.
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society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > delegated or entrusted to a deputy > deputed to act for another
delegatec1460
delegatory1533
delegated1610
allegate1646
c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 57 (MED) Moony stryves were i-meved afore Jugges fro þe pope Delegate.
c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 61 (MED) Þe chanons of Oseney..relesed to vs xxx d. þe which we haue i-owyd to pay to þem ȝerely for summe tithis of Escote, vppon þe which hit was A translacion whas i-maade betwene our church and þem afore Jugges Delegate.
1613 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Treasurie Auncient & Moderne Times vii. xxxix. 713/2 The King & the Queen with all their Seruants and delegate Apostles, went and supped againe at their owne liking.
1631 E. Knott Def. Nicholas Smith ii. 15 Hath our being, or not being a particular Church, so great latitude, that it may reach to a Church with a Bishop Ordinary, a Bishop Delegate, a simple Priest?
1828 H. Gunning Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. 420 The Party Appellant..doth desire the Judges Delegate [L. Judices Delegati] that they would decree [etc.].
1851 Colburn's United Service Mag. May 90 The council..resolved to avail themselves of the assistance of the vicar-delegate of the bishop.
2003 Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 13 Aug. 4 a/3 Public safety officer Nancy Kieltsch was selected as the City's delegate officer to assist in reducing traffic accidents, death and other injuries.
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delegatev.
/ˈdɛlᵻɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈdɛləˌɡeɪt/ 1. transitive. To send or appoint (a person) as deputy or representative, entrusting to him or her particular responsibilities, or the authority to act, take decisions, etc. Frequently in passive.Often with infinitive specifying the task or duty (as in she was delegated to attend the meeting); sometimes with object complement specifying the role or position (as in he was delegated judge).
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society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > vest authority in a person [verb (transitive)] > depute or delegate authority > depute, delegate, or commission a person
delegate1530
deleague1562
commissionate1587
subcommit1617
commission1622
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 510/2 The bysshop hath delegate the deane in this mater.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiv. 91 I vald god that fuluius flaccus var diligat iuge to puneis them.
1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie ii. ii. 71 Will any man..think it reasonable my Lord Keeper should, ad placitum, delegate whom hee will to keep the Seale?
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 20 Every one from his nativity hath an Angell delegated for his keeper.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. i. i. 10 Commissioners of the Abbot of Dunfermline who had been delegated judge by the pope.
1918 Minerals & Metals for War Purposes: Hearings before Comm. on Mines & Mining (U.S. House of Representatives, 65th Congr., 1st Sess.) 66 I don't think the President could delegate somebody else to issue a proclamation of the President of the United States.
2017 New Zimbabwe (Nexis) 20 Feb. Not even his deputy has been delegated to stand on his behalf therefore..he may not be taking the business of this committee seriously.
2. transitive. To entrust (authority, responsibilities, a task, etc.) to another person or group; to confer (authority, power, etc.) on a person or group. Later also intransitive.
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society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > vest authority in a person [verb (transitive)] > depute or delegate authority
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 510/2 I delegate myne auctorite, je delegue.
1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie ii. ii. 72 Can any man think it fit, to Delegate the Tuition or Education of a tender Prince, committed to his Charge?
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 54 in Justice Vindicated Supreme power is delegate from God to every Prince.
1774 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. App., in Wks. (1859) I. 138 Those bodies..to whom the people have delegated the powers of legislation.
1844 My School-boy Days (Relig. Tract Soc.) ii. 8 He would not receive more pupils under his care than he could inspect himself; feeling that he could not properly delegate his trust to others.
1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 95 The defendant delegated to another to utter the slanderous words.
1973 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 22 May 8/8 Her knack for organization and her ability to delegate wisely has resulted in many successful ventures.
2018 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 June a 25 Delegating authority enables Congress to proclaim broad policy goals while escaping accountability for the difficult trade-offs that actual policymaking entails.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > hand over to another
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1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 74 For this was Published and promulgated a Law, and the reason thereof delegated to the Iudges and Ministers of euery Region, that the Pesants should not sojourne [etc.].
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 310 A number of strange attributes, which by some of the poets were delegated to different personages.
4. transitive. Law. To assign (a person who is a debtor to oneself) to a creditor as debtor in one's place. Also intransitive. Now historical and rare.
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1722 W. Strahan tr. J. Domat Civil Law I. iv. iv. 517/2 One may delegate [Fr. deleguer] so as that the Obligation of him who delegates [Fr. delegue] or appoints another Debtor in his place, be annulled, and do not any longer subsist.
1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 214 The most frequent case of delegation is that of a debtor of the delegant, who, for his own discharge of a debt due by him, delegates that debtor to his own creditor.
1847 W. Burge Comm. Law of Suretyship ii. v. 174 It is necessary that there should be the concurrence of the person delegating, that is, the original debtor, and of the person delegated, or the person whom he appoints.
2011 B. Geva Payment Order Antiq. & Middle Ages v. 204 In a delegation occurring in circumstances under which the person to be delegated (Paymaster) owes the delegant (Debtor), the execution of the delegation confers a benefit on the person delegated..in the form of his discharge towards the delegant.
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