TENDER

ce Comuinercial | Didionary. le LEI.; | LEGATE, « papal amba ador, who, on ‘| particular miasiona, ls empowered to act | with almost full papal authority. The. ' powers of a lecvate were nsually conferred -| upon the Se of Cantacbaes before >| the Reformation, the presence of ome: | levates in England being repugnant to }} nation. -| LEGEND. 1. At first this was the title of the Look containing the le ons appointed to be read daily in the early sj;cherch. Later the term was spplied to;|a collection of the lives of saints and.| martyrs, and remarkable stories concern- | ing them. One of the most celebrated is \ithe “Golden Legend,” translated into | Roglish by Caxton, and printed by him in |} 1483. As much that was recorded in >} these collections was pure invention, the | term legend gradually came to be applied || to any fiction that claimed to be the trath. 2. Tho superscription round the head of |} a coin or medal, | [s. 195]