legationn.

Brit.

/lᵻˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ləˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English legacyoun, Middle English–1500s legacyon, Middle English–1700s legacion, Middle English– legation; also Scottish pre-1700 legacioun, pre-1700 legacioune, pre-1700 legatioun, pre-1700 legetion.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French legation; Latin lēgātiōn-, lēgātiō.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman legaciun, legatiun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French legation, Middle French legacion (French légation ) action of delegating power (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman as lecaciun ), mission of a legate (c1155 in Old French), body of deputies or envoys sent on a mission, ambassadors collectively (last quarter of the 12th cent. or earlier), legacy, bequest (end of the 15th cent.), position or office of legate (1577 in the passage translated in quot. 1579 at sense 4), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin lēgātiōn-, lēgātiō sending of a deputation, office or duties of an ambassador, commission, result of an embassy, deputation, office of legate to a provincial governor, in post-classical Latin also mission or jurisdiction of a papal legate (9th cent.), legacy (from 14th cent. in British sources) < lēgāt- , past participial stem of lēgāre legate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish legación (late 14th cent.), Italian legazione (13th cent.), and also Middle Low German legātie.With sense 2b compare French légation (1791 in this sense). In sense 5 after Italian legazione (first half of the 15th cent. in this sense; now historical).

I. Senses relating to a legate.

1. The purpose for which a legate is sent; a legate's mission or commission. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > the sending of ambassadors or envoys > business or message of ambassador

legationa1425

embassadec1425

ambassade1438

embassagea1530

ambassage1548

embassy1565

ambassy?1578

a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 2 Cor. v. 20 (MED) For crist þerfore we vse legacyoun [L. legatione fungimur] as god excytande by vs.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xxii. sig. Fiij Anne her [sc. Dido's] s[u]ster went incontynent towarde eneas to make vnto hym her feble legacion.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clix. f. lxxxvii The sayde Lewys..gaue answers concernynge theyr legacions and Messagys.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 238/1 Legation, a message, legation.

1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste ii. xvi. f. 93^v Thei generally concluded, that Atman should there dooe his legation, or imbacie.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. viii. 17 I have delivered Mr. Secretary Coke an account of the whole legation, as your Lordship inordred me.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 144 in Justice Vindicated Alfred..could not give any assent to their legation.

1762 T. Mortimer Brit. Plutarch III. 99 Another legation was contrived for him, to mediate a peace between the empire and France.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. ii. 35 Innocent had chosen a German by birth, perhaps from his knowledge of the language, for this important Legation.

1898 S. Evans Holy Graal 28 The Interdict difficulty had pressed hardly on former legations against the heretics.

1962 T. E. Mommsen & K. F. Morrison tr. Imperial Lives 83 (heading) Of the Legation of the Bishop of Strassburg.

1995 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Oct. 5/4 It has to do with Gladstone's increasingly exultant awareness of political mastery, of a divine legation to shape and command the course of politics.

a. A body of diplomatic envoys; a diplomatic envoy (now esp. one ranking below ambassador) and his or her staff.Frequently in secretary of legation (at secretary n.¹ 2a).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > body of

ambassade1425

embassade?a1439

legacyc1480

legation1509

ambassage1540

embassage1601

embassy1611

ambassy1620

mission1626

1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) lxxvi. sig. S.i^v (heading) Of folysshe legacyons, and messengers.

1566 Actis & Constit. Scotl. f. cxli It is statute and ordanit, be the thre Estatis of this present Parliament, that na Legate nor Legatioun, be ressaifit in this Realme, bot be auise of our Souerane Lord.

1602 T. North tr. S. Goulart Lives Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon 53 Cornelius the Centiner chiefe of this legation or ambassade.

1619 Visct. Doncaster Let. in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 148 To give him thankes for honoring this legation thus.

1651 Mercurius Politicus No. 59 926 They expect now every houre the Count Magnus de La Guarde, as the Head of the Legation.

1730 Daily Post 30 Aug. It is believed that that Prince's Secretary of Legation delivered it [sc. a Decree] to the Diet of the Empire.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 233 A secretary of legation in the mean time supplying their place.

1800 London Chron. 11 Jan. 37/2 Citizen Bignon, formerly Secretary of Legation in Helvetia, to be first Secretary of Legation at Berlin.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 93 Melfort was particularly active in laying traps for the young noblemen and gentlemen of the Legation.

1900 R. Hart Let. 20 May in J. K. Fairbank et al. I. G. in Peking (1975) II. 1229 The Legations think the crisis serious.

1964 E. Wilson Jrnl. in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 362 Out of the nine Americans in the legation, five spoke it, though the chargé d'affaires did not.

2009 H. G. Unger Last Founding Father vi. 106 Jefferson's nephew by marriage, whom Monroe agreed to take on as secretary of legation.

b. The official residence of a diplomatic envoy (now esp. one ranking below ambassador).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > official residence of ambassador

embassy1825

legation1863

1795 Vindic. Mr. Randolph's Resignation 17 The Declaration..which he has sent me to be lodged in the Archives of the French Legation.

1832 Diplomatic Intercourse 13 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives 22nd Congr., 2nd Sess. II. No. 94 The instructions are not in the legation [in London].

1863 R. Fortune Yedo & Peking iv. 72 His Excellency..gave me quarters in the Legation.

1886 C. F. G. Cumming Wanderings in China II. 257 Really good robes..are..offered for sale at all the Legations and other European dwellings.

1901 R. Allen Siege Peking Legations v. 113 Next morning we heard that the Belgian Legation had been burnt.

1954 A. S. K. Lambton Islamic Soc. in Persia (Inaugural Lect.) 29 The constitutionalists had taken asylum in the British legation in July 1906.

2006 A. Baron Torch of Tangier xx. 122 The American chargé d'affaires pretends that you work at the Legation.

3. The action of sending a deputy or representative, esp. a (papal) legate; the fact of being sent as a legate. In early use frequently in †to send in legation. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > [noun] > sending on a mission

legation1523

delegation1641

society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > vest authority in a person [verb (transitive)] > send on mission or as delegate

sendc950

commissionate1587

attorneya1616

employa1616

to send in legation1649

commission1652

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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. lxxxv/1 Y^e cardynall of Piergort came thyder, who was send fro the pope in legacyon.

1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 912 The Incumbents of them were strangers, and made their abode continually beyond the Seas in their owne Countries, or else at Rome, from whence they were sente in Legation to thys Realme vnto the King.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. x. 1 To the Priests and Levites sent in legation from the Sanhedrim, he professed that himself was not the Christ.

1738 W. Warburton (title) The Divine Legation of Moses.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 214 The object of Moses was to support his divine legation.

1838 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. I. iv. i. 742/2 These letters were presented to the King of France by the Bishop of Saintes, whom the pope sent in legation.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 108 The legation of a cardinal was..bound up in the popular mind with heavy fees.

1983 Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 21 219 This example also does not reflect the legation of a prelate who claimed this dignity on account of his position.

4. The position or office of legate, a legateship.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > envoy > office of

legacya1387

legation1524

legateship?1556

legaturea1674

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > ancient Roman > legate > position of

legation1701

1524 T. Wolsey in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 257 Bull of Legacion now graunted to me by the Pope's Holynes.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin viii. 451 The Pope..transferred very vnwillingly the legacion [Fr. legation] of the Realme of Fraunce to the Cardinall of Amboise.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 93 By the vertue of his legation, it belonged vnto him to dispose of all things taken in that sacred warre.

a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) ii. 58 He had accepted a Legation from the Pope.

1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 270 He was appointed to go as Legate to the Proconsul of Afric. That Legation being performed, Marcus [etc.].

1757 T. Smollett Compl. Hist. Eng. I. iii. ii. 552 Altho' this legate knew his arrival was not at all agreeable to the English, he affected, in the exercise of his legation, an insolence of deportment which not a little increased their disgust.

1813 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 11 Sept. 350 It was contrary to his character to intermeddle in other subjects than those belonging to the duties of his legation.

1864 W. Forsyth Cicero (1867) 438 He wrote..to Anthony to request that he might have a legation given him.

1956 C. R. Cheney From Becket to Langton v. 140 He visited all England as legate and, after his legation expired, visited the southern province as archbishop.

2008 A. J. Duggan in J. Doran & D. J. Smith Pope Celestine III 29 He [sc. Pope Celestine III] strongly supported Absalon of Lund, to whom he gave a legation.

5. Any of the provinces of the Papal States governed by a legate. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a papal legatee

legation1710

1710 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1709 31 His Excellency Mareschal Count de Taun, Commander General of the Imperial Army which is in the Three Legations, shall withdraw from thence 2000 Horse.

1790 A. Young Ann. Agric. 13 304 The legations of Bologna, Ravenna, and Ferrara, not only warmly oppose one another, but depress, upon all occasions, the neighbouring towns and cities.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 30 Deputies..assembled in the end of 1796, and erected the two papal legations with the Modenese duchy into a commonwealth.

1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 583 Cardinal Bernetti notified..his holiness's determination to send his troops into the legations.

1881 A. R. Pennington Epochs of Papacy 458 The people of the Legations rose against Gregory XVI.

1932 G. F.-H. Berkeley Italy in Making I. iv. 49 Of these twenty territories, ‘the Legations’, i.e. Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna and Forlì, remained unchanged.

1987 J. M. Robinson Cardinal Consalvi ii. 48 The Imperial troops occupied Venice in 1797 and by the summer of 1799 had taken control of much of northern Italy, including the papal Legations.

2003 M. Steen Lives & Times of Great Composers viii. 290 To protect their interests, the Austrians moved into Ferrara, a ‘Papal Legation’, without Pius' consent.

II. Senses relating to a legacy.

6. A gift by will, a legacy. Also: the action of bestowing a legacy. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > a bequest or legacy

quideOE

questc1300

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legacy1514

bequeathmenta1627

questword1792

bequeathing1855

1503 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1903) 49 I will that the said Dame Elizabeth take and perceyve the hole profuts of all my manors londs and tenements..to the perfourmance of my said legacions bequests and detts.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. iii. 44 The Archebishops and Bishops haue a certaine peculiar iurisdiction vnto them especially in foure maner of causes: Testamentes and legations, Tythes and mortuaries, [etc].

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 301 He..is bounde to beare the name,..by cause this is a condicionall legation or gift.

1872 Law Mag. & Rev. Nov. 874 Dully opened into the species, the succession would be, in order: Testament, Legation or Will, and Administration.

2014 M. B. Mader in T. Chanter & S. D. Kirkland Returns of Antigone 131 Here, the language of bequest or legation is clear. The legation is made to Oedipus's children, not as his children.

Compounds

General attributive in sense 2, as in legation flag, legation staff, etc.

ΚΠ

1841 United Service Jrnl. Oct. 234 The original answer from Don Carlos, communicated through the Carlist Legation Office in London.

1854 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (33rd Congress, 1st Sess.) III. No. 7. 34 For amount of his contingent expenses..consisting of..porterage, freight, legation flag, stamps for drafts, [etc.].

1873 Ladies' Repository July 18/2 He calls himself a legation-officer and is sent here from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

1886 C. F. G. Cumming Wanderings in China II. 337 The recently restored Legation buildings.

1900 W. A. P. Martin Siege in Peking v. 84 The marines..were occupying commanding points on the legation walls, or making sorties from the legation gates.

1901 R. Allen Siege Peking Legations vi. 211 Answer was returned that the Legation guard were simply acting on the defensive.

1919 Times 28 June Suppl. p. viii/2 German public and private property situated within the so-called Legation Quarter at Peking.

1942 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 11 Aug. in War Diaries (2001) 298 After lunch we came up to a delightful spot in the hills where the Legation staff live.

1987 W. Thesiger Life of my Choice iii. 54 The Legation escort with their red and white pennoned lances, rode down the wide lane..to the royal pavilion.

2006 A. Baron Torch of Tangier vi. 31 They worked on the pamphlet every day, cobbling it together from books in the Legation library.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	legation
释义	legationn. Brit. /lᵻˈɡeɪʃn/, U.S. /ləˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English legacyoun, Middle English–1500s legacyon, Middle English–1700s legacion, Middle English– legation; also Scottish pre-1700 legacioun, pre-1700 legacioune, pre-1700 legatioun, pre-1700 legetion. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French legation; Latin lēgātiōn-, lēgātiō. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman legaciun, legatiun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French legation, Middle French legacion (French légation ) action of delegating power (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman as lecaciun ), mission of a legate (c1155 in Old French), body of deputies or envoys sent on a mission, ambassadors collectively (last quarter of the 12th cent. or earlier), legacy, bequest (end of the 15th cent.), position or office of legate (1577 in the passage translated in quot. 1579 at sense 4), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin lēgātiōn-, lēgātiō sending of a deputation, office or duties of an ambassador, commission, result of an embassy, deputation, office of legate to a provincial governor, in post-classical Latin also mission or jurisdiction of a papal legate (9th cent.), legacy (from 14th cent. in British sources) < lēgāt- , past participial stem of lēgāre legate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish legación (late 14th cent.), Italian legazione (13th cent.), and also Middle Low German legātie.With sense 2b compare French légation (1791 in this sense). In sense 5 after Italian legazione (first half of the 15th cent. in this sense; now historical). I. Senses relating to a legate. 1. The purpose for which a legate is sent; a legate's mission or commission. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > the sending of ambassadors or envoys > business or message of ambassador legationa1425 embassadec1425 ambassade1438 embassagea1530 ambassage1548 embassy1565 ambassy?1578 a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 2 Cor. v. 20 (MED) For crist þerfore we vse legacyoun [L. legatione fungimur] as god excytande by vs. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xxii. sig. Fiij Anne her [sc. Dido's] s[u]ster went incontynent towarde eneas to make vnto hym her feble legacion. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clix. f. lxxxvii The sayde Lewys..gaue answers concernynge theyr legacions and Messagys. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 238/1 Legation, a message, legation. 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste ii. xvi. f. 93^v Thei generally concluded, that Atman should there dooe his legation, or imbacie. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. viii. 17 I have delivered Mr. Secretary Coke an account of the whole legation, as your Lordship inordred me. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 144 in Justice Vindicated Alfred..could not give any assent to their legation. 1762 T. Mortimer Brit. Plutarch III. 99 Another legation was contrived for him, to mediate a peace between the empire and France. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. ii. 35 Innocent had chosen a German by birth, perhaps from his knowledge of the language, for this important Legation. 1898 S. Evans Holy Graal 28 The Interdict difficulty had pressed hardly on former legations against the heretics. 1962 T. E. Mommsen & K. F. Morrison tr. Imperial Lives 83 (heading) Of the Legation of the Bishop of Strassburg. 1995 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Oct. 5/4 It has to do with Gladstone's increasingly exultant awareness of political mastery, of a divine legation to shape and command the course of politics. 2. a. A body of diplomatic envoys; a diplomatic envoy (now esp. one ranking below ambassador) and his or her staff.Frequently in secretary of legation (at secretary n.¹ 2a). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > body of ambassade1425 embassade?a1439 legacyc1480 legation1509 ambassage1540 embassage1601 embassy1611 ambassy1620 mission1626 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) lxxvi. sig. S.i^v (heading) Of folysshe legacyons, and messengers. 1566 Actis & Constit. Scotl. f. cxli It is statute and ordanit, be the thre Estatis of this present Parliament, that na Legate nor Legatioun, be ressaifit in this Realme, bot be auise of our Souerane Lord. 1602 T. North tr. S. Goulart Lives Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon 53 Cornelius the Centiner chiefe of this legation or ambassade. 1619 Visct. Doncaster Let. in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 148 To give him thankes for honoring this legation thus. 1651 Mercurius Politicus No. 59 926 They expect now every houre the Count Magnus de La Guarde, as the Head of the Legation. 1730 Daily Post 30 Aug. It is believed that that Prince's Secretary of Legation delivered it [sc. a Decree] to the Diet of the Empire. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 233 A secretary of legation in the mean time supplying their place. 1800 London Chron. 11 Jan. 37/2 Citizen Bignon, formerly Secretary of Legation in Helvetia, to be first Secretary of Legation at Berlin. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 93 Melfort was particularly active in laying traps for the young noblemen and gentlemen of the Legation. 1900 R. Hart Let. 20 May in J. K. Fairbank et al. I. G. in Peking (1975) II. 1229 The Legations think the crisis serious. 1964 E. Wilson Jrnl. in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 362 Out of the nine Americans in the legation, five spoke it, though the chargé d'affaires did not. 2009 H. G. Unger Last Founding Father vi. 106 Jefferson's nephew by marriage, whom Monroe agreed to take on as secretary of legation. b. The official residence of a diplomatic envoy (now esp. one ranking below ambassador). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > official residence of ambassador embassy1825 legation1863 1795 Vindic. Mr. Randolph's Resignation 17 The Declaration..which he has sent me to be lodged in the Archives of the French Legation. 1832 Diplomatic Intercourse 13 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives 22nd Congr., 2nd Sess. II. No. 94 The instructions are not in the legation [in London]. 1863 R. Fortune Yedo & Peking iv. 72 His Excellency..gave me quarters in the Legation. 1886 C. F. G. Cumming Wanderings in China II. 257 Really good robes..are..offered for sale at all the Legations and other European dwellings. 1901 R. Allen Siege Peking Legations v. 113 Next morning we heard that the Belgian Legation had been burnt. 1954 A. S. K. Lambton Islamic Soc. in Persia (Inaugural Lect.) 29 The constitutionalists had taken asylum in the British legation in July 1906. 2006 A. Baron Torch of Tangier xx. 122 The American chargé d'affaires pretends that you work at the Legation. 3. The action of sending a deputy or representative, esp. a (papal) legate; the fact of being sent as a legate. In early use frequently in †to send in legation. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > [noun] > sending on a mission legation1523 delegation1641 society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > vest authority in a person [verb (transitive)] > send on mission or as delegate sendc950 commissionate1587 attorneya1616 employa1616 to send in legation1649 commission1652 mission1692 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. lxxxv/1 Y^e cardynall of Piergort came thyder, who was send fro the pope in legacyon. 1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 912 The Incumbents of them were strangers, and made their abode continually beyond the Seas in their owne Countries, or else at Rome, from whence they were sente in Legation to thys Realme vnto the King. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. x. 1 To the Priests and Levites sent in legation from the Sanhedrim, he professed that himself was not the Christ. 1738 W. Warburton (title) The Divine Legation of Moses. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 214 The object of Moses was to support his divine legation. 1838 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. I. iv. i. 742/2 These letters were presented to the King of France by the Bishop of Saintes, whom the pope sent in legation. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 108 The legation of a cardinal was..bound up in the popular mind with heavy fees. 1983 Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 21 219 This example also does not reflect the legation of a prelate who claimed this dignity on account of his position. 4. The position or office of legate, a legateship. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > envoy > office of legacya1387 legation1524 legateship?1556 legaturea1674 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > ancient Roman > legate > position of legation1701 1524 T. Wolsey in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 257 Bull of Legacion now graunted to me by the Pope's Holynes. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin viii. 451 The Pope..transferred very vnwillingly the legacion [Fr. legation] of the Realme of Fraunce to the Cardinall of Amboise. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 93 By the vertue of his legation, it belonged vnto him to dispose of all things taken in that sacred warre. a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) ii. 58 He had accepted a Legation from the Pope. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 270 He was appointed to go as Legate to the Proconsul of Afric. That Legation being performed, Marcus [etc.]. 1757 T. Smollett Compl. Hist. Eng. I. iii. ii. 552 Altho' this legate knew his arrival was not at all agreeable to the English, he affected, in the exercise of his legation, an insolence of deportment which not a little increased their disgust. 1813 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 11 Sept. 350 It was contrary to his character to intermeddle in other subjects than those belonging to the duties of his legation. 1864 W. Forsyth Cicero (1867) 438 He wrote..to Anthony to request that he might have a legation given him. 1956 C. R. Cheney From Becket to Langton v. 140 He visited all England as legate and, after his legation expired, visited the southern province as archbishop. 2008 A. J. Duggan in J. Doran & D. J. Smith Pope Celestine III 29 He [sc. Pope Celestine III] strongly supported Absalon of Lund, to whom he gave a legation. 5. Any of the provinces of the Papal States governed by a legate. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a papal legatee legation1710 1710 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1709 31 His Excellency Mareschal Count de Taun, Commander General of the Imperial Army which is in the Three Legations, shall withdraw from thence 2000 Horse. 1790 A. Young Ann. Agric. 13 304 The legations of Bologna, Ravenna, and Ferrara, not only warmly oppose one another, but depress, upon all occasions, the neighbouring towns and cities. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 30 Deputies..assembled in the end of 1796, and erected the two papal legations with the Modenese duchy into a commonwealth. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 583 Cardinal Bernetti notified..his holiness's determination to send his troops into the legations. 1881 A. R. Pennington Epochs of Papacy 458 The people of the Legations rose against Gregory XVI. 1932 G. F.-H. Berkeley Italy in Making I. iv. 49 Of these twenty territories, ‘the Legations’, i.e. Bologna, Ferrara, Ravenna and Forlì, remained unchanged. 1987 J. M. Robinson Cardinal Consalvi ii. 48 The Imperial troops occupied Venice in 1797 and by the summer of 1799 had taken control of much of northern Italy, including the papal Legations. 2003 M. Steen Lives & Times of Great Composers viii. 290 To protect their interests, the Austrians moved into Ferrara, a ‘Papal Legation’, without Pius' consent. II. Senses relating to a legacy. 6. A gift by will, a legacy. Also: the action of bestowing a legacy. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > a bequest or legacy quideOE questc1300 queath worda1425 legate1438 witting1483 bequest1496 legation1503 legacy1514 bequeathmenta1627 questword1792 bequeathing1855 1503 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1903) 49 I will that the said Dame Elizabeth take and perceyve the hole profuts of all my manors londs and tenements..to the perfourmance of my said legacions bequests and detts. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum iii. iii. 44 The Archebishops and Bishops haue a certaine peculiar iurisdiction vnto them especially in foure maner of causes: Testamentes and legations, Tythes and mortuaries, [etc]. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 301 He..is bounde to beare the name,..by cause this is a condicionall legation or gift. 1872 Law Mag. & Rev. Nov. 874 Dully opened into the species, the succession would be, in order: Testament, Legation or Will, and Administration. 2014 M. B. Mader in T. Chanter & S. D. Kirkland Returns of Antigone 131 Here, the language of bequest or legation is clear. The legation is made to Oedipus's children, not as his children. Compounds General attributive in sense 2, as in legation flag, legation staff, etc. ΚΠ 1841 United Service Jrnl. Oct. 234 The original answer from Don Carlos, communicated through the Carlist Legation Office in London. 1854 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (33rd Congress, 1st Sess.) III. No. 7. 34 For amount of his contingent expenses..consisting of..porterage, freight, legation flag, stamps for drafts, [etc.]. 1873 Ladies' Repository July 18/2 He calls himself a legation-officer and is sent here from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? 1886 C. F. G. Cumming Wanderings in China II. 337 The recently restored Legation buildings. 1900 W. A. P. Martin Siege in Peking v. 84 The marines..were occupying commanding points on the legation walls, or making sorties from the legation gates. 1901 R. Allen Siege Peking Legations vi. 211 Answer was returned that the Legation guard were simply acting on the defensive. 1919 Times 28 June Suppl. p. viii/2 German public and private property situated within the so-called Legation Quarter at Peking. 1942 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 11 Aug. in War Diaries (2001) 298 After lunch we came up to a delightful spot in the hills where the Legation staff live. 1987 W. Thesiger Life of my Choice iii. 54 The Legation escort with their red and white pennoned lances, rode down the wide lane..to the royal pavilion. 2006 A. Baron Torch of Tangier vi. 31 They worked on the pamphlet every day, cobbling it together from books in the Legation library. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † legationv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: legation n. Etymology: < legation n. Obsolete. rare. 1. intransitive. To go on a legation. ΚΠ 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. xiii. 460 Now legationing in Foreign parts. 2. transitive. To make (a person) part of a legation. ΚΠ 1912 M. T. Daviess Melting of Molly i. 7 No wonder Al didn't succeed at bank clerking, but had to make his hit at diplomacy and the high arts. Some hit at that to be legationed at Saint James! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1425v.1864
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