The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provisor \Pro*vi"sor\, n. [L., fr. providere: cf. F. proviseur. See Provide.]
One who provides; a purveyor. [Obs.] ``The chief provisor of our horse.''
--Ford.-
(R. C. Ch.)
The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.
--Cowell.One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5.
--P. Plowman.
(Eng. Hist.) One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A deputy of a Roman Catholic bishop. 2 The holder of a papal provision. n. 1 A deputy of a Roman Catholic bishop. 2 The holder of a papal provision.
Usage examples of "provisor".
Camarines, Don Fray Francisco de Zamudio, to act as provisor until the bishop of Zebu, Don Fray Pedro de Arze, should be notified, to whom the government of this archbishopric belongs by a bull of Paul V.
The new provisor, the bishop of Camarines, had readily raised the interdicts and the suspension of religious functions.
The prelates of the orders, with the exception of him of the Society, thought that the provisor who had been intruded could not legitimately raise the interdict and the other censures.
The archbishop held various meetings with the religious, and they agreed to defend the said provisor to the death, as they said, if necessary.
Lordship to my provisor, and his answer, and the resolution of your Lordship to send him to the island of Hermosa.
I always view the affairs of your Lordship, and my obligations, constrain me to represent affectionately to your Lordship, on the present occasion, the great danger that is being incurred in maintaining the provisor in his office, in hatred of him who represents to us the royal person, so that your Lordship may consider in time the scandalous end that is threatened.
I had given that he was not to be allowed to enter, since he is not provisor, and has nothing to do inside the walls.
He is a canonical lawyer, and for this reason I have appointed him as our provisor and vicar-general.
In the time of my predecessor he was provisor and vicar-general, and commissary of the crusade for four years, acquitting himself very well.
Last year he was provisor and vicar-general, and deserves that your Majesty should honor him with a place in the cathedral.
Don Pedro de Monroy, a lawyer, was provisor and sub-delegate of the crusade for four years, in the time of our predecessor, Don Fray Miguel Garcia.
Henry was, no doubt, entirely bent on his destruction, when, on his failure by a parliamentary impeachment, he attacked him upon the statute of provisors, which afforded him so little just hold on that minister.
During this reign, the statute of provisors was enacted, rendering it penal to procure any presentations to benefices from the court of Rome, and securing the rights of all patrons and electors, which had been extremely encroached on by the pope.