[f. SUB- 8, 9 + DELEGATE v. after F. subdéléguer or med.L. subdēlegāre.] trans. † To appoint (a person) to act as a subdelegate; to transmit (power) to a subdelegate.
1611. Cotgr., Subdeleguer, to subdelegate, substitute, appoint another vnder him.
a. 1670. Hacket, Cent. Serm., 354. All power and royalty is subdelegated from the Pope to other princes.
1891. [Meredith Townsend], in Spectator, 21 Feb., 272/1. The ruler gets bored with the work, and delegates his power, which is again sub-delegated.
So † Subdelegate pa. pple. and ppl. a., Subdelegated ppl. a.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 252. Iudges of mean note subdelegat by inferior Counts.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Sub-Delegate, or Judge Sub-Delegate, a Judge appointed under another; a Deputy.
1709. Lond. Gaz., No. 4517/3. The Subdelegate Ministers of the Imperial Commission.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 310. A sub-delegated Judge, to whom only some part of the mesne Process in a Cause is committed in the second Place by a delegated Judge.
