1. To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
2. To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit. The delegated administration of the law. Locke. Delegated executive power. Bancroft. The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative. J. B. Finch.
DELEGATION
Del`e*ga"tion, n. Etym: [L. delegatio: cf. F. délégation.]
1. The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
2. One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
3. (Rom. Law)
Defn: A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. Pothier.
DELEGATORY
Del"e*ga*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. delegatorius pert. to an assignment.]
Defn: Holding a delegated position. Nash.
DELENDA
De*len"da, n. pl. Etym: [L., fr. delere to destroy.]