Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
- noun A high administrator in one of the modern colonial empires.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient Rome, an officer who discharged the duties and had, outside of Rome itself, most of the authority of a consul, without holding the office of consul.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
magistrate who served as aconsul and then as thegovernor of aprovince
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power
- noun an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
- noun a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He said he supposed the proconsul was the friend of Caligula, who often visited Agrippa; and expressed a surmise that he himself might be exiled, or that perhaps his throat would be cut.
Herodias 2003
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Florinus may have belonged to his suite, and Irenæus in after years might well call the proconsul's retinue, in
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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The proconsul was a prudent man, and he called for Barnabas and Saul and wished to hear the word of God.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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The proconsul was a prudent man, and he called for Barnabas and Saul and wished to hear the word of God.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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The proconsul was a prudent man, and he called for Barnabas and Saul and wished to hear the word of God.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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The proconsul was a prudent man, and he called for Barnabas and Saul and wished to hear the word of God.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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The U.S. command has divided the world into several command sectors, each with their own powerful 'proconsul' protecting the rights of the empire [3].
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Oakley, the special U.S. envoy to Somalia, became a kind of proconsul, alternately cajoling and threatening the factions in order to stop the fighting, deliver food to the hungry and start rebuilding a nation.
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Trajan emphasized at once his personal control and the constitutionality of his sway, by bearing on his campaigns the actual title of "proconsul," which no other emperor had done.
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[[994] Procurator] Over the senatorial provinces the senate appointed by lot yearly an officer, who was called "proconsul" and who exercised purely proconsul, civil functions.
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