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The deputy or substitute for a legate.

a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.

One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London. Old Escalus . . . is thy secondary. Shak.

An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean. Ayliffe.

An under or deputy marshal.

A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.

An assistant or deputy hangman. Shak.

A sheriff's deputy.

One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy. [R.]

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

nts allowed only to elect candidates from whom the governor of the province nominated the deputy, and all acts of the zemstvo subjected to the approval of the governor. Theoretically the zemstvo has large powers relating to taxation, education, public health, etc., but practically these powers are in most cases limited…