society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > delegated or entrusted to a deputy > deputed to act for another > appointed as subdelegate (2)
That is or has been subdelegated; (later also) that acts as a subdelegate or subdelegado (subdelegado, n.). Also as past participle in early use.
Appointed to act as a subdelegate; deputed by a person who or authority which has itself been deputed. Chiefly historical and archaic in later use.