ablegate

present singular third person ablegates · participle present ablegating · participle past ablegated · past ablegated

1. obsoletetransitiveTo send abroad.

   Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate, and send thee to some vast and horrid Desert.

   c. 1660, R. Carpenter, Pragmatical Jesuit 64

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   The evil which you imav gine, therefore, is so far from being really felt, that we are now sufferers by the bad policy of our ancestors, in ablegating their poor to till the wilds of America; and maintaining them there at an enormous expence

   1795, Elisa Powell, Elisa Powell, or Trials of sensibility

   Couriers were ablegated from all points of the vicinage, to secure the adjuments of pharmacopolists, chirurgeons, and even of amethodists; but their prescriptions had no consimilitude.

   1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant: In the East

plural ablegates

1. obsoleteCatholicismA representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
2. historicalobsoleteAn elected representative of a Hungarian royal free city, charged to be a speaker at the Diet of Hungary and to express the opinion of the city.