Word
ablegate
Phoneticsable·gate
Definition
v. to give someone a task or a position. This is an old-fashioned word that people rarely use today.
v. to assign a task, duty, or position to someone.
Examples
“The king ablegated the task to his most trusted advisor.”
“In the old legal system, the judge would ablegate the minor details of the case to a lower court.”
“The historical text describes how the monarch ablegated the management of the northern territories to a series of regional governors during the long winter campaign.”
Examples
simple
“The king ablegated the task to his most trusted advisor.”
contextual
“In the old legal system, the judge would ablegate the minor details of the case to a lower court.”
complex
“The historical text describes how the monarch ablegated the management of the northern territories to a series of regional governors during the long winter campaign.”
Etymology
Borrowed from French ablégate, from Latin ablēgātus, perfect passive participle of ablēgō (“I send off or away; banish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + lēgō (“I dispatch, send on a commission”). See legate.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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