a. [as if ad. Lat. type *lēgantīnus, f. lēgant-, pr. pple. of lēgāre: see LEGATE and -INE.] Incorrect synonym of LEGATINE.
1533–4. Act 25 Hen. VIII., c. 21 § 1. Jurisdictions legantine.
a. 1562. G. Cavendish, Wolsey (1893), 65. There was made a solempne procession, and my lord Cardynall went presently in the same, apparelled in his legantyn ornaments.
1641. Milton, Animadv., Wks. 1851, III. 229. Sending … Bishops and Archbishops … with a kind of Legantine power.
1759. Hume, Hist. Eng. (1778), IV. 16. Wolsey … erected an office, which he called the legantine court.
1769. Robertson, Chas. V., III. XI. 304. To exercise his legantine functions with the most ample power.
1847. Yeowell, Anc. Brit. Ch., xi. 118. The summons … to attend a legantine Council.
1868. Stanley, Westm. Abb., vi. (ed. 2), 517. They met … under his [Wolsey’s] Legantine authority.
