the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to a legate.
adj. Made by, proceeding from, or under the sanction of, a legate.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Of or pertaining to a legate.
Made by or proceeding from a legate: specifically applied to certain ecclesiastical laws enacted in national synods in England under the presidency of legates from the Pope about the time of Henry III.
Also legantine.
Word Usage
"I teachet you in fair time, my elders, the W.X.Y.Z. and P.Q.R.S. of legatine powers and you, Ailbey and Ciardeclan, I learn, episcoping me altogether, circumdeditioned me."