procuratorshipn.
/ˈprɒkjᵿreɪtəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈprɑkjəˌreɪdərˌʃɪp/ The position, function, or term of office of a procurator.
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procuratorship1577
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. i. xi. 14 The fourth [year] of the procuratorship of Pontius Pilate.
1623 W. Traheron & E. Grimeston tr. P. Mexia Imperiall Hist. 78 He saued them from danger, aduancing Halotvs to a Procuratorship, and rebuking the people for their crueltie against Tigellinvs.
1679 D. Holles Let. of Gentleman to Friend 28 For it was never done, but in this one Parliament, there never was in no Parliament before or after such a Procuratorship or Proxy given.
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. V. 244 The abbey..holds also the procuratorship of Altorf as a mortgage from the Empire.
1766 J. Fleetwood Life Jesus Christ 411 Unable to effect their design under the government of Festus, they determined to attempt it under the procuratorship of Albinus his successor.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 235/2 In Nero's time, and during the procuratorship of Catus Decianus.
1880 Times 24 May 12/6 The Clerk read a letter from Lord Lee intimating his resignation of the Procuratorship of the Church on his appointment as a Judge in the Court of Session.
1931 J. Clayton St. Hugh of Lincoln xiv. 141 In the days of his procuratorship at the Grande Chartreuse.
1967 A. N. Sherwin-White Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome iii. 79 At least a dozen such procurators can be found before the Flavian period..at a time when the total number of procuratorships numbered barely fifty.
2000 Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 130 415 The terminus post quem is the date of Fronto's letter to Antoninus Pius recommending Appian for a procuratorship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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