procuratorial, a.
(prɒkjʊərəˈtɔərɪəl)
[f. late L. prōcūrātōri-us procuratory (f. prōcūrātōr-em procurator1) + -al1. Cf. F. procuratorial.]
1. Of or pertaining to a procurator or proctor, in various senses; proctorial.
| 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 254 A Procuratorial Exception is Twofold, viz. First, that A. is not a lawful Proctor: and, Secondly, That he cannot be a Proctor. 1738 Neal Hist. Purit. IV. 339 Who..sent proxies with procuratorial letters. 1874 Queen's Printers' Bible-Aids 81 A procuratorial coinage circulated in Judea from a.d. 6–59. 1874 Stubbs Const. Hist. I. xiii. 635 The ecclesiastical practice of which such procuratorial representation was a familiar part. 1899 W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Jan. 46 Pamphylia was a distinct procuratorial province. |
2. Of or pertaining to university proctors.
| 1663 Wood Life 22 Sept. (O.H.S.) I. 492 To be pro-proctors and exercise procuratorial power. 1845 Mozley Laud Ess. (1878) I. 198 The procuratorial cycle was his remedy for the disorders then attending the public election of the proctors. 1894 Liddon, etc. Pusey I. xvi. 378 Keble..dryly observed on hearing the procuratorial veto, that ‘others too might play at that game’. |