ablegate

(æbˈlɛɡət)

a papal envoy who has important duties abroad such as bringing a cardinal's insignia to him when he has just been appointed, or taking a message to a sovereign

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References in periodicals archive

Bernabe; the French ambassador was Jules Cambon, not Pierre Cambdon; Leo XIII's delegate in the United States was Sebastiano Martinelli, not "Papal Ablegate Msgr.

Diary of a Dirty Little War: The Spanish-American War of 1898

The verb ablegate is marked with a dagger in OED, and is described as obsolete and rare.

Johnson in his Dictionary defines ablegate as 'to send abroad on some employment; also to send a person out of the way that one is weary of'.

A postdating for 'OED' from Edward Davies's 'Elisa Powell.' (Oxford English Dictionary)

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