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delegacy|ˈdɛlɪgəsɪ|
[f. delegate n.: see -acy.]
1. The action or system of delegating; appointment of a person as a delegate; commission or authority given to act as a delegate.
1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 21 §1 Great summes of money..haue ben..taken by the Pope..for delegacies, & rescriptis in causes of contencions and appeles. 1614Raleigh Hist. World v. ii. §8 Understanding the majesty of Rome to be indeed wholly in the people and no otherwise in the senate than by way of delegacy or grand commission. 1626State Trials, Dk. Buckhm. (R.), They are great judges, a court of the last resort..and this not by delegacy and commission, but by birth and inheritance. 1882Ffoulkes in Macm. Mag. XLV. 204 So much for delegacies and appeals in the abstract. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. lxiii. 459 He is..forbidden to hope for a delegacy to a convention.
2. A body or committee of delegates; † formerly also, a meeting of such a body.
In the University of Oxford, a permanent committee, or board of delegates, entrusted with special business; as, the Delegacy of the Non-Collegiate Students: see delegate 2 b.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. (1657) 64 The plaintiff shall have his complaint approved by a set delegacy to that purpose. 1631Laud Wks. (1853) V. 49 Their professed aim was to dissolve the delegacy appointed for the ordering and settling of the statutes [of Oxford]. 1669Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 172 The Delegacy for printing of books met between 8 and 9 in the morn. 1671Ibid. II. 216 A conference or delegacy held in the lodgings of Dr. Jo. Lamphire, principal of Hart hall. 1852[see delegate 2 b]. 1867Times 13 Dec. 8/6 Youths residing entirely..out of College would require special attention, and therefore it was proposed to create a delegacy—that is, an Academic Board—for that purpose. 1875M. Pattison Casaubon 90 The town-council of Montpellier proceeded to appoint a delegacy of eight persons to prepare a scheme for the college of Arts. |