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单词 legative
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legativeadj.n.

Brit. /ˈlɛɡətɪv/, U.S. /ˈlɛɡədɪv/
Forms: 1500s legatyue, 1500s–1600s legatiue, 1500s– legative.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin legativus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin legativus (already in classical Latin as lēgātīvus in sense ‘relating to legacies’ (attested in an inscription (2nd cent. a.d.)); compare also classical Latin lēgātīvum payment made to ambassadors for expenses (2nd cent. a.d.)) < classical Latin lēgāt- , past participial stem of lēgāre legate v. + -īvus -ive suffix. Compare legatine adj.
Now rare.
A. adj.
1. Conferring the authority of a legate; empowering as a representative (esp. in † legative bull, legative commission). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > [adjective] > conferring authority of delegate
legative1548
commissive1613
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > papal documents > [noun] > bull
bull1297
brevet1362
bill1450
pontificala1500
bullock1537
legative bull1548
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cv By a Bull legatyue, whiche he purchased at Rome, he gathered so much treasure, that no man in maner had money but he.
1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 86 If the Church haue a ministery to appoint..then must shee needs haue a commission legatiue.
1858 W. Howitt Cassell's Illustr. Hist. Eng. II. 170/2 The English ambassadors congratulated Giulio on his elevation, and solicited the continuance of the legative commission to Wolsey.
1899 K. Coman & E. K. Kendall Hist. Eng. (1901) viii. 230 Wolsey..had accepted a legative commission from the pope that he might have greater control over the monasteries.
1913 J. Gairdner Lollardy & Ref. IV. vii. iv. 143 Pole himself had by that time already received a dash of cold water after notifying his legative commission to the Emperor.
2. Of or relating to a legate (esp. a papal legate); legatine.In quot. 1886: of or relating to an ambassador.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [adjective] > envoy
legantine1528
legatine1533
legative1565
legatorial1656
1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 184 The whole clergie of England, beyng iudged by the kinges learned counsel, to be in the premunire, for maintaining ye power legatiue of ye Cardinal.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 340 All those things you haue done of late By your power Legatiue [mod. edd. legantine] within this Kingdome. View more context for this quotation
a1631 R. Cotton Abstr. Rec. Tower (1642) 27 Thus did Cardinall Wolsey with Wareham the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and all other the Bshops of the Kingdome after hee had got his Legative power.
1716 Summary Penal Laws relating to Nonjurors, Papists & Nonconformists Introd. sig. A2 Austin the Monk..having by Virtue of his Legative Authority, summoned the British Bishops to a Synod.
1774 J. Collyer Hist. Eng. II. v. 109 He sent him soon after to the pope, to get the legative power restored to the see of Canterbury.
1807 J. W. Newman Lounger's Common-place Bk. 70/1 Papal councils, legative decrees, episcopal and provincial constitutions.
1842 Amer. Q. Reg. Aug. 46 Some provincial and legative canons had been recently made, forbidding those in holy orders to engage in secular employments.
1886 Law Times 80 146/2 An attaché, not being a domestic servant of an ambassador, was not entitled to the legative privilege of exemption from process in the courts.
1919 H. Holloway Reformation in Ireland xi. 180 A legative Commission is to visit the clergy and others of Ireland.
1992 J. O'Faolain Judas Cloth xiv. 252 Nicola was glad to have a message to deliver to Monsignor Bedini at the legative villa at San Michele in Bosco.
B. n.
Perhaps: something entrusted with a message. Obsolete.
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1657 J. Pettus in R. Loveday Lett. (1659) sig. A4 The latter Age hath even robb'd the poor of their raggs, torturing them with Mills and other Engines, till in paper they are made Legatives to most of our humane affairs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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