[f. SUB- 6 + DELEGATE, after AF., OF. subdelegat, med.L. subdēlegātus; cf. OF. sousdelegat, F. sous-délégué.] One who represents, or is deputy for, a delegate.

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c. 1550.  Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 215. Sa that thow mak me thy subdelegat.

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1592.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), III. 557/2. The said mr of the mettallis … and his sub-delegattis … to be appointit be him.

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1668.  Lond. Gaz., No. 251/3. The Subdeligate from the Marquiss Castel Rodrigo on the behalf of Spain.

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1752.  Carte, Hist. Eng., III. 320. Brooks, bishop of Gloucester, sitting as the pope’s Subdelegate.

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1794.  Gifford, Reign Louis XVI., 309. What then have they asked?—the suppression of aides and subdelegates.

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1904.  A. F. Pollard, Cranmer, xii. 350. The subdelegate’s court was opened in the Church of St. Mary.

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