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Meanings of vice-legate in English
Spanish
legado pontificio Governor of a territory of the Papal States.
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Usage of vice-legate in English
1
My name is Dolci, I am son of the captain of the vice-legate's guard.
2
Avignon is governed by a vice-legate from the pope, and the police of the city is regulated by the consuls.
3
He was successively inquisitor at Malta, vice-legate at Ferrara and nuncio in Cologne (1639-1651).
4
I was told that the vice-legate offered three hundred crowns, and I felt a real pleasure in contradicting my favoured rival's desires.
5
He left this with the rank of prolate, in 1828 was secretary to the nuncio at Paris and was made vice-legate of Bologna shortly afterwards.
6
From this time until 1790 Avignon, widowed of her popes, was governed by legates and vice-legates.
7
From your place in the Embassy you would have mounted a step higher to the office of Vice-Legate.
8
"Only the vice-legate's auditor," she replied; "and though he makes me his pathic he is good-natured and generous.