单词 | subdelegado |
释义 | subdelegadon. In Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking countries: any of various officials exercising delegated authority; spec. an official subordinate to an intendant (intendant n. 1a), having authority over a subdelegación (now historical). Also as a title or form of address.The office of intendant's subordinate, corresponding to the French subdelegué, was introduced into the Spanish Empire in the 18th cent. as part of the Bourbon reforms. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > in Spanish America subdelegado1810 1810 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 102 The Indians have no remedy against the injustice of these magistrates, except the interference of the priests, who are therefore in a state of constant enmity with the Subdelegados. a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIII. 78 These two classes of functionaries [viz. Commandants and Administrators] are under the immediate control of a Subdelegado, or Lieutenant of the Government, who has the chief command of all the country of the Missions [in Paraguay]. 1857 D. P. Kidder & J. C. Fletcher Brazil & Brazilians in Hist. & Descr. Sketches 263 The delegado or subdelegado is the justice of the peace; the juiz municipal answers to the circuit judge or the presiding officer of the Court of Common Pleas. 1907 Cambr. Mod. Hist. X. viii. 267 Each intendencia was divided into partidos ruled by subdelegados. 1957 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 37 169 Demetrio..complained that the subdelegados in his intendency were distributing 10,000 mules a year at the exorbitant price of 45 to 50 pesos. 1996 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 2 Oct. He had been subdelegado for the Federal Judicial Police in Jalisco and had held a similar post..in southeastern Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula. 2003 E. van Young in C. I. Archer Birth Mod. Mexico, 1780–1824 (2007) i. 34 Bonavia simply continued the old practices of the alcaldes mayores under the new system of subdelegados, who were subordinate to the intendants. 2006 J. Dym From Sovereign Villages to Nat. Stat. 308 In Tegucigalpa, first subdelegado Pedro Martir de Zelaya sought more subdelegados positions. The intendant agreed, despite city council objections. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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