legate|legates in English

noun

[leg·ate || 'legɪt]

official representative, emissary; representative of the Pope; assistant to an official (Roman History)

Use "legate|legates" in a sentence

1. They were the legates of conquest.

2. The priest was appointed the legate by the pope.

3. Synonyms for Consuls include ambassadors, diplomats, emissaries, envoys, legates, capitouls, delegates, lawyers, plenipotentiaries and representatives

4. Synonyms for Ambassadress include ambassadrice, ambassadrix, ambassatrice, embassadress, ambassador, envoy, representative, emissary, legate and consul

5. The main commanders, centurions and the Legate, are also the deadliest members of the Legion.

6. Mr. Banks I have been accused of many things, but never of being a papal legate.

7. As punishment for defying a Roman Legate, Spartacus has been sentenced to die in the gladiator arena.

8. Not for the first time, the legate had shown more enthusiasm for papal power than the pope.

9. During much of Pilate’s tenure, however, the legate was absent, and Pilate had to end disorders quickly.

10. To avenge the Albigenses’ murder of the papal legate, Pope Innocent III ordered a military campaign against them

11. The German crusaders, accompanied by the papal legate and cardinal Theodwin, intended to meet the French in Constantinople.

12. By September, after meetings with the legate and King Louis, a new agreement had been reached at Nonancourt.

13. The Procutors commanded only auxiliary military units and looked to the Senatorial ranked Imperial Legate of Syria for direction.

14. In 1596 Pope Clement VIII sent him as the papal legate to France where Maria de' Medici was queen.

15. But the vehemence and passion manifested by the legate revealed too plainly the spirit by which he was actuated.

16. It is possible that Offa would have liked Ecgfrith to have been consecrated either by the pope or by the papal legates.

17. The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power.

18. In the Early Roman Egypt the prefect was the legate of the emperor and directly was appointed by the emperor.

19. The pope recovered, and, desiring to retain the abbacy during his lifetime, appointed the abbot-designate his legate for Constantinople.

20. The pope's intention now was for a diet of princes to be convoked - to be chaired by a papal legate.

21. For example, Caiaphas was appointed High Priest of Herod's Temple by Prefect Valerius Gratus and deposed by Syrian Legate Lucius Vitellius.

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23. Severus gave the man a beating with cudgels, while his herald proclaimed: 'Let no plebeian embrace a legate of the Roman people with impunity.

24. Military campaigns, such as the one that led to the construction of the Antonine wall in Scotland in the 140s A.D., were conducted by imperial legates, not by the emperor in person.

25. Coffer The legate or delegate would operate the police as a self-sufficient unit, with funds available from the central Coffers in cases only of extreme need