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procurator

[ prok-yuh-rey-ter ]

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noun

Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
a cellarer.
a person, as a deputy, attorney, or agent, employed to manage the affairs of another.

procurator

/ -trɪ; ˈprɒkjʊˌreɪtə; ˌprɒkjʊrəˈtɔːrɪəl; ˈprɒkjʊrəsɪ; ˈprɒkjʊrətərɪ /

(in ancient Rome) a civil official of the emperor's administration, often employed as the governor of a minor province or as a financial agent
rare.
a person engaged and authorized by another to manage his affairs

procu·rator·ate procu·rator·ship noun
proc·u·ra·to·ri·al [prok-yer-, uh, -, tawr, -ee-, uh, l, -, tohr, -], procu·ra·tory adjective

1250–1300; Middle English < Latin prōcūrātor manager. See procuration, -tor

C13: from Latin: a manager, from prōcūrāre to attend to

For this purpose, the order is sending Father Francisco Gutierrez as their procurator-general.

She would avail herself of the procurator of the Augustinians to restore her son to the good graces of the Dominicans.

What the procurator had said touching the young Nazarene, had attracted her mind and turned attention from her own misery.

It was a most ingenious device, and affords a striking example of the astuteness of the procurator.

Felix the procurator—a king, as Tacitus says, in power and in mind a slave—tried in vain to put down the revolutionaries.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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