proconsul
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səl 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.
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noun
an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
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| —n | |
| 1. | an administrator or governor of a colony, occupied territory, or other dependency |
| 2. | (in ancient Rome) the governor of a senatorial province |
| [C14: from Latin, from prō consule (someone acting) for the consul. See | |
| proconsular | |
| —adj | |
| pro'consulate | |
| —n | |
| pro'consulship | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
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."
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Proconsul, the last common ancestor between apes and humans.
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