proconsul

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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, who now treated him with a kind of disdainful indulgence, tried to reassure him.

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  1. noun A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
  2. noun A high administrator in one of the modern colonial empires.

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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].
  • Barbula's army remains in the field and he is allowed to continue in command as a proconsul. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • When they voted a statue to a proconsul, they placed it among the statues of the gods in the festival called Lectisternium_, from the ridiculous circumstances of this solemn festival. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • Accordingly Baronio [293:1] suggested that Cyprus, though a prćtorian province, was often handed over honoris causa to be administered by the proconsul of Cilicia, and he assumed therefore that Sergius Paulus held this latter office; while Grotius found a solution in the hypothesis that proconsul was a title bestowed by flatterers on an official whose proper designation was proprćtor. —  Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
  • So far as I have observed, only one other person bearing it [295:1]--probably a descendant of this Cyprian proconsul--is mentioned, of whom I shall have something to say hereafter; and he flourished more than a century later. —  Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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  1. 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.

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  1. = F. Spanish Portuguese proconsul = Italian proconsole, from Latin proconsul, a proconsul, orig. as two words, pro consule, one who acts in place of a consul: pro, for, in place of; consule, ablative of consul, a consul: see consul.
 

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/prəˈkɑnsəl/
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