Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DEL-E-GA'TION
DEL'E-GA-TINGDELENDA-EST-CARTHAGO
DEL-E-GA'TION, n.
- A sending away; the act of putting in commission, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate. – Burke. The duties of religion can not be performed by delegation. – S. Miller.
- The person deputed to act for another, or for others. Thus, the representatives of Massachusetts in Congress are called the delegation, or whole delegation.
- In the civil law, the assignment of a debt to another, as when a debtor appoints his debtor to answer to the creditor in his place.
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