Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To send abroad..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, obsolete) To send abroad.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A 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.
3. (historical) An 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.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• ablegates
• ablegating
• ablegated

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When Should You Use Ablegate?

Use ablegate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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