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Example sentences for "legate"

Lexicographically close words:
legalized; legalizing; legall; legally; legat; legatee; legatees; legates; legati; legatine
  1. The legate of the Pope hath been with me, And I have made a happy peace with him; And he hath promis'd to dismiss the powers Led by the Dauphin.

  2. Legate Apostolic in Denmark and Sweden, and who Christianized the whole northern parts of Europe.

  3. In 49 he was legate of Caesar and, with P.

  4. The matter was postponed, and William meanwhile privately sent messengers to Rome, who acknowledged Urban and prevailed on him to send a legate to the king bearing the archiepiscopal pall.

  5. One day Cardinal Commendoni, the Legate to Vienna, and a great friend of Stanislaus, came to Rome and hurried over to the Roman College to call upon Stanislaus.

  6. The Apostolic Legate of Pope Saint Pius V to the court of the Emperor at Vienna was Cardinal Commendoni.

  7. You know that I am legate to the pope; On your allegiance to the see of Rome, Subscribe, as we have done, to his exile.

  8. The legate of the Pope will have it so, And thou must hence, or I shall be deposed.

  9. So said Gardiner, and so said the papal legate and the queen, in the delirious belief that they were the chosen instruments of Providence.

  10. He had acted as papal legate within the realm.

  11. He also acted as legate for Caesar in Gaul about 52 B.

  12. I do not know exactly what a legate is, but it had something to do with the Roman ballet, I understand, and commanded a good salary.

  13. Legate in Spain, after his capture at the battle of Ravenna.

  14. This transept ends in the chapel of the Beato Nicolo Albergati, a Carthusian Cardinal, who was sent as legate by Martin V.

  15. Consequently a party was organised against him composed of the clergy, Emperor, and Pope; and the papal legate held a court in Germany which deprived him of his episcopal functions.

  16. In Spain the papal legate was menaced and outraged by the clergy, when he tried to enforce celibacy.

  17. In the papal court he was a very prominent personage, serving as legate on many an important mission, and in 1061 was almost chosen Pope.

  18. Through a legate he presided over the fourth ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, guided its theological discussions, and was "the finisher of the true doctrine of the presence of Christ.

  19. The Bishop of Pui, was made the Pope's legate and Raymond, Count of Toulouse, was appointed to lead the laity.

  20. The monk resume his sway, the Roman legate In pomp march hither; lock our churches up, Dethrone our monarchs?

  21. Thus in 1238 he demanded that the king should release certain Oxford scholars who had assaulted the legate Otho.

  22. The rest of his life was spent in peaceful obscurity as cardinal-bishop of Porto and legate of the mark of Ancona.

  23. He acted, moreover, as a legate in France, where he was occupied inter alia with the question of Berengarius of Tours, whose views on the Lord's Supper had excited opposition.

  24. He spoke with the same frankness to legate Pucci.

  25. Next, he had opposed it to the legate of Rome at Augsburg, and the legate, paralysed, had allowed his prey to escape.

  26. The pope committed the decision to his legate in Switzerland, and the bishops of Lausanne and Sion.

  27. The legate entreated him to retain it; and Zuinglius, who at that time had no thought of placing himself in open hostility to the head of the Church, consented for three years to receive it.

  28. But the coldness of the Diet did not try the patience of the legate so much as the coldness of Rome.

  29. Our old Cardinal is dead, and the new one not appointed yet; but the masquing goes on the same, the vice-legate being a good governor.

  30. The legate of the pope hath been with me, And I have made a happy peace with him; And he hath promis'd to dismiss the powers Led by the Dauphin.

  31. And even there, methinks, an angel spake: Look, where the holy legate comes apace, To give us warrant from the hand of heaven And on our actions set the name of right With holy breath.

  32. In the year 1300, when Niccola da Prato was at Florence as cardinal legate of the Pope, for the purpose of settling the discords among the Florentines, he caused Giovanni to build a nunnery for him at Prato, which was called S.

  33. In addition to this, the Pope and the legate offered the most liberal indulgences to those who would contribute alms towards the work.

  34. Maria Novella and all its possessions were granted to Blessed Giovanni by the papal legate and by the bishop of the city, they entered into possession and began to live in that place on the last day of October 1221.

  35. For the cardinal Giovanni degli Orsini, papal legate in Tuscany, he built the campanile of that church, which woo some praise among the works of those times, but it did not receive its stone finishing until after the year 1303.

  36. The Pope's legate in Bologna stopped the supply of polenta, the Florentines depending on that to eat with their own oil.

  37. Thus it happened a few hours before that Fergan, climbing up by the light of his wick, had overheard the conversation between the Bishop of Nantes and Jeronimo, the legate of the Pope, and then that of the bourgeois of Nantes and his daughter.

  38. The legate of the Pope followed next, accompanied by the clergy; then the troops of soldiers, on foot and on horseback; and finally the multitude of ragged men, women and children who trailed after the army.

  39. That belongs to Bohemond, Prince of Taranto," the legate answered the King of the Vagabonds, pointing with his finger to a group of crusading seigneurs who had just witnessed the miracle of Peter Barthelmy and the death of Azenor the Pale.

  40. The Duke of Aquitaine then embraced the knees of the papal legate and appealed to him imploringly: "Oh, my father in Christ, I vow to relinquish all my goods to our holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church!

  41. Perceiving the legate of the Pope, William threw himself on his knees at the feet of the prelate: "Holy father, have pity upon me!

  42. As the legate paid his obeisance to the monarch, he remained with his head uncovered; and Philip, with a similar act of courtesy, while he addressed a few remarks to the churchman, held his hat in his hand.

  43. The following day mass was said by the papal legate in presence of the king, who afterwards took part in a solemn procession to the church of St. Mary, where the people united with the court in a general thanksgiving.

  44. In the third the same Pope is making Cardinal di Monte his Legate at the Council of Trent; and there are innumerable portraits.

  45. Matthew Paris gives a lively account of the exactions of the nuncio Martin, who resided for many years at the Temple, and came there armed by the pope with powers such as no legate had ever before possessed.

  46. The papal legate then, turning towards the Grand Master and his companions, called upon them to renew, in the hearing of the people, the avowals which they had previously made of the guilt of their order.

  47. Sture was to all appearances the rising star, and on him the crafty legate resolved to fix his hopes.

  48. To this proposal the legate added that Christiern had given his consent.

  49. The pope, already distrustful of his Danish ally, had listened favorably to the message, and in the following summer, 1523, had sent a legate to Sweden to inform him further on the subject.

  50. He therefore was prepared to listen impartially to the arguments on every side, and as papal legate to use his authority in favor of the highest bidder.

  51. This warning from the legate proves that the Swedish prelates were already cutting one another's throats.

  52. Magni (Johannes), early life of, 126; is appointed legate by Adrian VI.

  53. They poured in their contributions with a lavish hand, and the legate soon amassed a princely fortune.

  54. In return the legate addressed the house at great length in favor of Gustavus.

  55. It was about this time, early in the winter of 1518, that Christiern made up his mind to suggest a truce with Sweden, and the grand idea occurred to him of enlisting the papal legate in his service.

  56. Shortly after, on the 5th of February, we find the legate reappointing the old archbishop, Ulfsson, to the post.

  57. He sent back a despatch at once, thanking the legate for his efforts in behalf of peace, and expressing a wish to accede in general to the proposition.

  58. If Desmond himself was slow to rise, the whole South of Ireland was in a state of wild tumult and excitement when the news of the actual arrival of Fitzmaurice and the legate became known.

  59. The legate and Desmond had first to be found, and now that arms had come, the Munster tribesmen had for the most part been killed or dispersed.

  60. Desmond, his two brothers, and the legate were already fugitives.

  61. In this view Christ prescinds in these verses from the sense in which He is God, and shows that in some sense, as the legate of the Father, He has a right to be called God.

  62. Thus He concludes, insisting on the fact that He is the legate of God (consubstantial with the Father, verse 45), and as such worthy to be believed.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agent; ambassador; attache; bequeath; chancellor; commissary; commissioner; consul; delegate; deputy; devise; diplomat; emissary; envoy; herald; legate; messenger; minister; nuncio; plenipotentiary; representative; resident; will