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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Procurator \Proc"u*ra`tor\, n. [L.: cf. F. procurateur. See Procure, and cf. Proctor. ]
(Law) One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor.
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(Rom. Antiq.) A governor of a province under the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea.
Procurator fiscal (Scots Law), public prosecutor, or district attorney.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
(c.1300) "steward or manager of a household;" also "a provider" (late 13c. as a surname), from Old French procuratour "attorney, agent, proxy, spokesman" (13c., Modern French procurateur) or directly from Latin procurator "manager, overseer, agent, deputy," agent noun from past participle stem of procurare (see procure). Related: Procuracy; procuration; procuratory.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tax collector. 2 An agent or attorney. 3 A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see (w: public procurator) 4 (lb en Ancient Rome) The governor of a small imperial province.
WordNet
n. a person authorized to act for another [syn: proxy, placeholder]
(ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman emperor to manage finance and taxes
Wikipedia
Procurator (with procuracy or procuratorate referring to the office itself) may refer to:
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Procurator (Roman), the title of various officials of the Roman Empire
- Roman Procurators of Judaea Province, 44–70 AD
- Procurator (Teutonic Knights), a position in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights
- Procurator of San Marco, the second most prestigious life appointment in the Republic of Venice
- HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, "HM Procurator General" being one of the positions held by the Treasury Solicitor in the United Kingdom
- Procurator fiscal, the public prosecutor in Scotland
- Procurator to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, chief counsel to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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Public procurator, a position in some Roman law systems, analogous to both detective and public prosecutor, including:
- Procurator (Russia), an office of the Russian Empire
- Prosecutor General of Russia, heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General of Russian Federation
- General Prosecutor of Ukraine
- Procurator General of the Soviet Union, the highest functionary of the Office of Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices of public procurators and supervision of their activities on the territory of the Soviet Union
- Supreme People's Procuratorate, China
- Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam, an office of the Vietnamese government
- Legal procurator, a warranted legal professional in several countries, including Malta and Argentina.
- the head of one of the "nations", regionally based separate corporate bodies in certain universities, most famously the medieval University of Paris
- Procurator (Catholic Church): in a monastery, the monk or nun charged with administering its financial affairs
The procurator of the Teutonic Knights was a position in their monastic state. The procurator was responsible for the court matters and administration of a specific region called a procuratoria, as well as commanding the army. As a commander, the procurator had brothers of the Teutonic Knights and vassal Old Prussians at his disposal. Procurators were under the direct command of the komturs.
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Procurator was the title of various officials of the Roman Empire, posts mostly filled by men of the equestrian order.
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a procurator is one who acts on behalf of and by virtue of the authority of another. Bishops have been represented at councils by procurators, as Saint Peter Canisius attended the Council of Trent as procurator for the Bishop of Augsburg.
Procurator (, prokuror) was an office initially established in 1722 by Peter the Great, the first Emperor of the Russian Empire, as part of reforms to bring the Russian Orthodox Church more directly under his control.
The Russian word prokuror also has the meaning of prosecutor.
Chief Procurator (also Ober-Procurator; обер-прокурор, ober-prokuror) was the official title of the head of the Most Holy Synod, effectively the lay head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and a member of the Tsar's cabinet. Konstantin Pobedonostsev, a former tutor both of Alexander III and of Nicholas II, was one of the most powerful men to hold the post of Chief Procurator, from 1880 to 1905.
The General Procurator (Procurator General) and the Ober-Procurator were major supervisory positions in the Russian Governing Senate, which functioned from 1711 to 1917, with their meaning changing over time. Eventually "Ober-Procurator" became the title of the Chief of a department of the Senate.
Usage examples of "procurator".
Prisca, Virgin and Martyr, and after midday, died our beloved Brother, John Bouman, a Priest, who was once our Procurator.
The good procurator takes me affectionately by the hand, and leads me to the third story, where he leaves me.
And for one brief tantalizing moment it had become possible for his eyes to penetrate the cloud of unknowingness that had concealed the Procurator from them for so long.
The next day I was in Bologna, and the day after in Florence, where I met the Chevalier Morosini, nephew of the Venetian procurator, a young man of nineteen, who was travelling with Count Stratico, professor of mathematics at the University of Padua.
The procurator asked me if I amused myself as well as I had done at Paris sixteen years ago, and I told him that sixteen years more, and a hundred thousand francs less, forced me to live in a different fashion.
The Archa poised like a bird of prey on the lip of its tomb, then launched itself toward the procurator with its forelimbs spread to slash.
Procurator Morosini is very sorry not to have been able to take a last leave of Mdlle.
Our effort has been compromised in advance by too many greedy procurators and publicans, too many suspicious senators, too many brutal centurions.
The procurator Rosa, who is a great favourite of my aunt's, was present.
The Procurator Morosini is very sorry not to have been able to take a last leave of Mdlle.
Zaguri's departure, I had a note from the consul informing me that the Procurator Morosini was stopping in my inn, and advising me to call on him if I knew him.
About this time the Venetian general, Palmanova, accompanied by the procurator Erizzo, came to Trieste to visit the governor, Count Wagensberg.
I found Madame Orio, Angela, the old procurator, and Marton in the room.
All the guests belonged to Juliette's set, with the exception of Madame Orio, her nieces, and the procurator Rosa, who sat together in the room adjoining the hall, and whom I had been permitted to introduce as persons of no consequence whatever.
She became celebrated afterwards, and she is still alive, I believe, the widow of Procurator Iron, whose family is extinct.