| 单词 |
proprætor |
| 释义 |
proprætor|prəʊˈpriːtə(r)|
[a. L. prōprætor, originally prō prætōre (one acting) for the prætor.]
A magistrate of the ancient Roman republic who after holding the office of prætor was given the administration of a province not under military control, with the authority of a prætor. Also, one who acted in place of a prætor.
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 1107 Junius Vindex being Proprætor of Gavle. 1600Holland Livy xxx. 769, P. Lentulus the Propretour. 1727–41in Chambers Cycl. 1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1859 X. 228 note, In the imperatorial provinces, where the governor bore the title of Proprætor, there was provision made for a military establishment. 1840Macaulay Ess., Clive (1887) 560 The [East India] Company's servants might still be called factors... But they were in truth proconsuls, proprætors, procurators of extensive regions.
Hence proˈprætorship, the office of a proprætor.
1620–55I. Jones Stone-Heng (1725) 9 The second Year of Julius Agricola his Proprætorship, or Lieutenancy in Britain. 1824J. H. Newman in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) X. 280/1 From the period of his Consulate to his Proprætorship in Cilicia. |
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