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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.

representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.

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

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

(Law), the person to whom the residue of real estate is devised by a will. -- Residuary legatee (Law), the person to whom the residue of personal estate is bequeathed.

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.

cutive 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 throughout…

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

A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of age is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. Blackstone. -- Vested remainder (Law), an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent. Blackstone. Kent.…

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.

lled by a consul. -- Vice king, one who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy. -- Vice legate Etym: [cf. F. vice-légat], a legate second in rank to, or acting in place of, another legate. -- Vice presidency, the office of vice president. -- Vice president Etym: [cf. F. vice-président], an officer next in rank belo…

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