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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of deligate.

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Examples

  • As a matter of constitutional design it might indeed be better to have more power at the county level, but as a matter of law plenary power is at the state level with county power deligated by law from the state to the county.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Senator Feinstein and the Commerce Clause: 2009

  • He has deligated essential Commander In Chief responsibilities to unelected aides, people who we don't know anything about and he glosses over important parts of his decision-making process with the same unconfident imprecision that Sarah Palin does in her ABC News interview.

    Dave Winer: If the press will just do their job, all will be OK 2008

  • Let's be honest, John Paul II deligated a lot of the hard work to people like Ratzinger, who was his enforcer.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • Ligatures are frequently applied to the femoral artery, principally for aneurisms and wounds, and the vessel may be deligated at any point in its course.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • This artery may be deligated in cases of aneurisms, wounds, &c., in either of its main trunks or branches.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • He is also now deligated to receive all illegal income locally generated in

    TamilNet Newswire 2010

  • Benefits should be well below the minimum wage - workd for the community should be deligated in return.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Reading was deligated to bedtime because there was never time during the day.

    Studio Stuff 2009

  • He has deligated essential Commander In Chief responsibilities to unelected aides, people who we don't know anything about and he glosses over important parts of his decision-making process with the same unconfident imprecision that Sarah Palin does in her ABC News interview.

    Scripting News 2008

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