Legate

1. n. Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province.
2. n. An ambassador or envoy.
3. n. An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.
4. n. An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.