单词 | procureur |
释义 | procureurn. 1. Usually in French contexts: an agent or representative, esp. an attorney or legal representative. Cf. procurator n.1 4. procureur general n. the chief prosecuting attorney in a court of appeal in France, esp. the chief prosecutor in the Court of Cassation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one who acts for another procuratorc1300 proctor1301 attorney1347 provisora1393 assignee1419 procuracya1425 solicitorc1425 factor1445 soliciter1464 doer1465 umbothman1482 agent1523 assign1526 procurera1533 practitioner1560 proxy1585 pragmatic1593 procureur1604 pragmatitioner1607 foreign agent1646 institor1657 agent general1659 proxy-man1696 interestera1701 maat1824 society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > legal representative or agent procurera1325 attorney-general1597 procureur1604 trampler1608 attorney universal1637 man of business1779 businessman1798 mukhtar1801 1604 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. Q3 There bee of this Court, of Presidents, Councellors,..Procureurs, Aduocates. 1635 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge (new ed.) iv. xvii. 337 But the next morning before the Seneschall and Procureur Fiscall, they justified their innocencie, by many who knew De Blaise, and so were cleared. ?c1682 J. Warburton Treat. Hist. Guernsey (1822) 11 The then bishop of Coûtance.., sent his procureur, or agent. ?c1682 J. Warburton Treat. Hist. Guernsey (1822) 56 The King's Procureur... He is properly the King's Attorney. 1701 Syst. Geogr. 63/2 Two Advocates General; one Procureur General, and Twenty substitues to him. 1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 18 Mar. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1701 Not the hand of a procureur, or a writing-master. 1804 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 112 Bougon, procureur-general of the department of Calvados. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Aug. 3/2 Sir E. Baring..goes on to say that he would..have preferred making the Mudir a magistrate to having the procureur system. 1905 A. C. Gunter Conscience of King i. 8 A procureur attached to the local courts of Rouen. 1954 L. M. Case French Opinion on War & Diplomacy during Second Empire i. 6 The reports of the procureurs general (procureurs généraux) were by far the best of the administrative sources for information on opinion. There was a procureur general assigned as part of the staff (parquet) of each of the twenty-eight courts of appeals in France. 1987 J. B. Hilton Displaced Person xiv. 196 The procureur comes to the regrettable conclusion that there is not a case that would stand up in court. 2. = procurator n.1 1a. historical. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > monastic functionary > hordarian (in charge of property) > [noun] procuratorc1300 proctor1301 procureur1870 hordarian1892 1870 J. Thomas Universal Pronouncing Dict. Biogr. & Mythol. 1769/2 Pérignon,..a French monk,..was procureur of the abbey of Hautvilliers, and is said to have rendered a great service to Champagne by perfecting the quality of its wine. 1907 Daily Chron. 9 July 3/5 The monks..of La Grande Chartreuse..were governed by priors and procureurs... The latter [looked] after the temporalities, or revenues and supplies. 2006 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 12 Mar. 4 A Benedictine monk called Dom Perignon in the late 17th Century..was the procureur of the Abbey of Hautvillers, and pioneered the crucial second fermentation. 3. A procurer (procurer n. 5b), a pimp. Cf. procureuse n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp putourc1390 panderc1450 mitchera1500 apple-squire?1536 squire of dames or ladies1590 apron-squire1593 bed-broker1594 pimp1600 pippin squire1600 petticoat-monger1605 smockster1608 underputter1608 broker-between1609 squire of the placket1611 squire1612 fleshmongera1616 cock bawd1632 whiskin1632 pimp-whiskin1638 bully1675 foot pimp1690 mutton-broker1694 pimp whisk1707 flash-man1789 panderer1826 bludger1856 whoremaster1864 mack1894 lover1904 jelly bean1905 procureur1910 P.I.1928 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 nookie-bookie1943 papasan1970 1910 Times 29 Apr. 14/1 The procureurs (the cant name is ‘ponce’) at work in this country are mostly foreigners. 1979 W. J. Fishman Streets of E. London 52/2 Lodging houses infested by thieves, procureurs and prostitutes. 1993 in D. J. West Male Prostitution iii. xvii. 276 They have been vetted by this friend I brashly call a procureur who would not allow me to pick up anybody he thought would endanger me in that way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1604 |
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