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Definition of Proconsul

1. Noun. An official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power.

2. Noun. A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.

3. Noun. An anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul.

Definition of Proconsul

1. n. An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.

Definition of Proconsul

1. Noun. (context: in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province ¹

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Definition of Proconsul

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proconsul

proclitically proclitics proclive proclivities proclivity proclivous procoagulant procoele procoeles procoelian

procoelians procognitive procollagen procollagens procompetitive proconsul (current term) proconsular proconsulate proconsulates proconsuls

proconsulship proconsulships proconvertases proconvertin procrastinate procrastinated procrastinates procrastinating procrastination procrastinations

Literary usage of Proconsul

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"The proconsul, however, still persisted in his insane fury, ... At last the cruel proconsul, boiling with rage, commanded that a most ferocious leopard ..."

2. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1892)
"The position of the proconsul was a somewhat peculiar one. The whole diocese of Africa, ... were placed under the Vicarius Africae, while the proconsul of ..."

3. The History of Rome by Livy (1890)
"The proconsul, Appius Claudius, conquered the ... This book contains, moreover, an account of the successful expedition of Curio, the proconsul, ..."

4. The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth by Nathaniel Hooke (1830)
"proconsul in the Gauls. C. Julius C»esar. proconsul in Macedonia, L. Calpurnius Piso ... proconsul in Cilicia and Cyprus, P. Cornelius Lentulus ..."

5. A Smaller History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of by William Smith (1899)
"As "cipio as , , . , , -.1 • ,. r- u proconsul in he was not ... device was adopted of creating him proconsul at the Comitia of the Centuries. ..."

6. The History of Rome by Livy (1877)
"Marcus Aquilius, the proconsul, put an end to the servile war in Sicily. ... when lieutenant-general under Quintus Mucius, the proconsul, to protect the ..."

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