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pro·con·sul       [proh-kon-suhl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
2.any appointed administrator over a dependency or an occupied area.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L prōconsul; see pro-1, consul]

—Related forms
pro·con·su·lar, adjective
pro·con·su·lar·ly, adverb
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Pro·con·sul       [proh-kon-suhl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
[Origin: < NL (1933), equiv. to pro- pro-1 + Consul, allegedly the name of a chimpanzee in a London zoo (with a pun on L prōconsul proconsul); the genus was thought to be ancestral to the chimpanzee]
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pro·con·sul       (prō-kŏn'səl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
  2. A high administrator in one of the modern colonial empires.


[Middle English, from Latin prōcōnsul, from prō cōnsule, in place of the consul : prō, instead of; see pro-1 + cōnsule, ablative of cōnsul, consul; see consul.]

pro·con'su·lar (-sə-lər) adj., pro·con'su·late (-sə-lĭt) n., pro·con'sul·ship' n.
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proconsul 
1382, "governor or military commander of an ancient Roman province," from L. proconsul, from phrase pro consule "(acting) in place of a consul," from pro- + abl. of consul. In modern use, usually rhetorical, but it was a title of certain commissioners in the Fr. Revolution and also was used in Eng. for "deputy consul."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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proconsul

noun
1. an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power 
2. a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire 
3. an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul 

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Proconsul

Pro*con"sul\, n. [L., fr. pro for + consul consul.] (Rom. Antiq.) An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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