ablegate
v. C2 Proficiency able·gate
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.
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.
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.