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rs, at a, race course, etc. -- Grand vicar (Eccl.), a principal vicar; an ecclesiastical delegate in France. -- Grand vizier. See under Vizier.

To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.

The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

ust of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn.

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

. Law), a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of the court of delegates.

Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.

xecutive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps, the same which was defined in an "order made in 1635 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;" the name presently extended throughou…

The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority. [R.] Shak.

A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.

Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. Barrow.

Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.

Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. Milton.