procuracy
(ˈprɒkjʊərəsɪ)
Also 3–6 -acie, 3–4 -asie, 5 -acye, -ase, -esy, (3 procracie, 6 Sc. procry): see also proxy.
[ad. med.L. prōcūrātia (1245 in Du Cange), for cl. L. prōcūrātio procuration. So obs. It. procuraz{iacu}a, procurat{iacu}a ‘a proctorship, also a procuration’ (Florio).]
1. a. The office or action of a procurator; management or action for another. letters of procuracy: = 2.
| [1315 Rolls of Parlt. I. 357/2 En les Letres de Procuracie q'il porterent ovesqe eux souz le Seal le dit Count.] c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 155 Such procuracie is synful and yvele takun. 1482 in Rymer Foedera (1711) XII. 173/1 Lettres of Commission and Procuracye under the Grete Seale. 1565 Satir. Poems Reform. i. 134, I sawe..howe the faythfull was enforst with procry to procede. 1631 Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 670 Letters of procuracie signed, and sealed by the King his master to redemand diuers great summes of money. 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 530 The procuracy or proctorship of Lorsch. 1978 Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 672/2 The rôle, function and powers of public security organs, the procuracy and the courts are more closely defined. |
† b. A deputy, proxy, legate. rare—1. Obs.
| 1460 J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 301 Whan this procuracie was come to the Kyng, these articules were offered of the lordis. |
† 2. A document empowering a person to act as the representative of another; a proxy, a letter of attorney. Obs.
| 1425 Paston Lett. I. 20, I have, by advys of counseill, in makyng a procuracie ad agendum, defendendum, provocandum, et appellandum to yow..; the whiche procuracie..I shal sende to yowr persone. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 211 b, He sayd he would sende thither a sufficient procuracie and conuenient proctors, & desired to see the Orators commission. 1607 Cowell Interpr. s.v. Procurator, Procuracy is vsed for the specialitie, whereby he is authorized. [1845 Ld. Campbell Chancellors (1857) I. xii. 180, I, William Trussel, procurator of the prelates, earls, and barons, and other people in my procuracy named, having, &c.] |
† 3. Eccl. The provision of entertainment for the bishop or visitor by the parson or religious house visited; hence, a sum paid in commutation of this; = procuration 3, proxy 5. (= Anglo-L. procuratia, Matt. Paris, med.L. procuratio.) Obs.
| c 1290 St. Edmund Conf. 333 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 440 Procracies [Harl. MS. 2277 procuracies] huy ȝeuen him also..Of persones to nime largeliche. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 249 Whanne bischopis & here officeris comen & feynen to visite,..wrecchid curatis ben nedid to festen hem richely & ȝeue procuracie & synage. c 1440 Jacob's Well 129 Prelatys of holy cherch,..puttyn here sugettys to outrageous cost,..in vysityng, & in raisynge of procuracyes vnleffully. c 1450 Godstow Reg. 87 They shold paye..to the Archidekon of Bokyngham, procuracy. |
† 4. The office or official residence of a Venetian procurator (= It. procurat{iacu}a). Obs.
| 1691 tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3) 253 He..went up to the Procuracies of S. Mark. [1715 Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. Pref. 6 In Venice..the new Palace of Procuracy.] |