English

Verb

ablegate ‎(third-person singular simple present ablegates, present participle ablegating, simple past and past participle ablegated)

1. (obsolete) To send abroad.
   • c. 1660, R. Carpenter, Pragmatical Jesuit 64:

     Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate, and send thee to some vast and horrid Desert.

   • 1795, Elisa Powell, Elisa Powell, or Trials of sensibility:

     The evil which you imav gine, therefore, is so far from being really felt, that we are now sufferers by the bad policy of our ancestors, in ablegating their poor to till the wilds of America; and maintaining them there at an enormous expence

   • 1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant: In the East:

     Couriers were ablegated from all points of the vicinage, to secure the adjuments of pharmacopolists, chirurgeons, and even of amethodists; but their prescriptions had no consimilitude.

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Noun

ablegate ‎(plural ablegates)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
2. (Self-government of "small" nobility in Hungarian Kingdom) A representative of the Royal free city charged to be a speaker at Diet of Hungary, most of his duties was to express the opinion of the city at the proceedings of Parlamentum Publicum. Ablegate was voted by the assembly of thanes/yeomen from the free royal city. At the Diet of Hungaria, all royal free cities had one vote together.

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Anagrams

• gateable

Latin

Verb

ablēgāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of ablēgō