n. [ From Delegate, a. ]
By way of delegacy or grand commission. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Banishment. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]
He came and told his legacy. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
Legacy duty,
Legacy hunter,
n. [ See Profligate, a. ] The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness. [ 1913 Webster ]