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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Surrogate

/sẽr'-əg-ət/ · Sur·ro·gate · IPA /ˈsɝəɡɪt/
01 n. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
  1. 1.
    A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
  2. 2.
    The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.[Eng.]
  3. 3.
    In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
  4. 4.
    a surrogate mother. See: surrogate mother
02 v. t. To put in the place of another; to substitute.
  1. 1.
    To put in the place of another; to substitute.[R.]