LEGATE
- a. assistant to a general or to a consul or magistrate, in the government of any army or a province; commander of a legion b. provincial governor of senatorial rank appointed by the emperor
- a usually official emissary
- ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative
- envoy or emissary
- to bequeath (to grant by testament) [v LEGATED, LEGATES, LEGATING]
- to bequeath (to leave by will) [v LEGATED, LEGATING, LEGATES]