procurator
IPA: proʊkjˈʊrʌtɝ
noun
- A tax collector.
- An agent or attorney.
- A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see public procurator
- (Ancient Rome) The governor of a small imperial province.
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Examples of "procurator" in Sentences
- Shortly before his death Tiberius recalled the procurator
- In recent times the name procurator is often found used for this official.
- "The young man with the procurator is a wizard," Tenoctris said without a transition.
- He was chosen procurator, that is, lieutenant-governor, and general receiver of the taxes of Byzacena.
- Call the procurator fiscal’s office, ask what the likely charge will be, providing they find the culprit.
- Judea was now reduced to a Roman province, dependent on the prefecture of Syria, though usually place under the inspection of a subordinate officer, called the procurator or governor.
- He had appointed as procurator, that is, financial commissioner, in "long-haired" Gaul, a native who, having been originally a slave and afterwards set free by Julius Caesar, had taken the Roman name of Licinius.
- These directorates shall be composed of rabbis, elders of the community, and a commissioner representing the Government; in the central directorate this commissioner shall be replaced by a "procurator" to be appointed directly by the king.
- Wherefore the Romans that were in Camelodunum sent for aid vnto Catus Decianus the procurator, that is, the emperours agent, treasurer, or receiuer, for in that citie (although it were inhabited by Romans) there was no great garrison of able men.
- So, instead of a king ruling royally from the palace left by Herod on Mount Zion, the city fell into the hands of an officer of the second grade, an appointee called procurator, who communicated with the court in Rome through the Legate of Syria, residing in Antioch.
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