Legates is valid Scrabble Word

Is legates a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for LEGATES in dictionary:

VERB:

LEGATE, to bequeath

NOUN:

a member of the clergy, especially a cardinal, representing the Pope
an ambassador or messenger.
a general or governor of an ancient Roman province, or their deputy

Words related to LEGATES

legate7 legated9 legating10

Words that contain LEGATES

ablegates12 delegates11 relegates10 legateship16 legateships17 nondelegates14 superdelegates18

How to use LEGATES in a sentence

In answer to this appeal the Pope despatched two legates to Constantinople, and Ignatius was summoned to appear before a council at which they were present.
At last the patience of the legates was exhausted, and on July 16, 1054, they proceeded to the Church of St.
Ignatius and the Emperor, and presided over by the legates of Pope Adrian.
He sent his legates to preside over the councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon.
All he consented to do was to send cardinal legates to England, but intrusted to none but himself the prerogatives of final judgment.
The Pope, at last aroused, excommunicated the Archbishop of York for crowning the son of Henry, and threatened Henry himself with an interdict, and recalled his legates.
All the papal legates and cardinals in the world could neither convince nor frighten him.
They feared the new authority claimed by legates, which threatened to withdraw the clergy, if they chose to assert their claims, from regular episcopal jurisdiction.
When papal legates arrived in 1167 with proposals for mediation, he bluntly expressed his hope that he might never see any more cardinals.
In the summer of 1169 two legates were sent to settle the dispute, of whom one was pledged to the king and the other to the archbishop.

Once more legates were appointed to bring about a settlement between the two kings at La Ferte Bernardon the 4th of June.
Two legates were on their way, sent by the Pope, to inquire into the murder of Becket, and armed in case of an unsatisfactory reply with all the terrors of an interdict.
Raymond, affrighted, prevailed on the two legates to repair to St.
The legates, after having reproached him vehemently, determined to leave St.
He, therefore, restricted the right of holding them to the popes and their legates.
It was at this unlucky moment that the two cardinal legates came upon the scene, reaching Paris in August, intent on arranging a pacification.
The legates who succeeded to his charge did little more for about sixty years than secure the frontiers of the Roman province.
His Legates received orders to invent some decent excuse for a step which would certainly be resisted, since Bologna was a city altogether subject to the Holy See.
Spies were introduced into the opposite camps, who kept the Legates informed of what the French or Spaniards deliberated in their private meetings.
The Legates meanwhile established a daily post of couriers, who carried the minutest details of the Council to the Vatican.
On receiving this report from his legates, Amphitryon at once led forth his whole army from camp.
The people, who have just learned that the Pope and Emperor have recalled their legates and ambassadors, are awed and frightened.
Lucullus, and several others, offered their services as legates.
The two legates, meanwhile, opened their court at London, and cited the king and queen to appear before it.
On Sunday, the 3rd October, the king, with a train of 1,000 mounted gentlemen richly dressed, attended by the legates and foreign ambassadors, went in procession to St.
Caesar, sitting with easy grace on his own favourite charger which he himself had bred, gave in calm, deliberate voice the last orders to his legates.
I might forget that Felix and Florus and Gessius were legates in that Roman residence, but I do not fail to remember that they took that Prophet before Pilate there.
Victor, and the celebrated Guimond, the Papal legates, announced to the confederates the desire of His Holiness that they should wait his arrival.
No sooner had the legates delivered their instructions, than deliberations were virtually begun.
The chiefs directed all their efforts to induce the legates to sanction the election of a king, and confirm their choice.
In vain, too, he conjured the legates to refuse their approval, at least until May, and begged them, with tears in his eyes, not to give the signal for civil war.
Moved by these passionate representations, and, perhaps, expecting to please the Sovereign Pontiff, the legates yielded, and confirmed the election of Rodolph.

Similar words containing LEGATE without suffix s

legate7 legated9 legatee8 ablegate11 delegate10 legatees9 relegate9 ablegates12 delegated12 delegatee11 delegates11 relegated11 relegates10 delegatees12 legateship16 legateships17 nondelegate13 undelegated14 nondelegates14 superdelegate17 superdelegates18

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