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proconsular, a.|prəʊˈkɒnsjʊlə(r)|
[ad. L. prōconsulār-is: see prec. and -ar1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a Roman proconsul.
1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. xii. 89 He was invested with Proconsular Authority for the more contentfully peracting this Tax. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Tilbury, The 4 proconsular ways made in Britain by the Romans crossed each other in this town. 1852Conybeare & H. St. Paul (1862) I. xii. 391 Gallio is seated on that proconsular chair from which judicial sentences were pronounced by the Roman magistrates. 1904W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Ch. xxii. 297 The Christians were tried in the proconsular courts.
b. transf. Of or pertaining to a mediæval or modern provincial governor.
1798Hel. M. Williams Switzerland I. xiv. 200 Stung into disobedience by some act of proconsular tyranny, they took up arms against their sovereign.
2. Of a province: Under the administration of a Roman proconsul.
proconsular Asia, the Roman province of Asia, including the districts of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and Phrygia, the western part of Asia Minor; the ‘Asia’ of the New Testament.
1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Acts xix. 10 The Gospel was spread through all Asia proconsular. 1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1859 X. 228 note, Throughout the senatorian or proconsular provinces, all taxes were immediately paid into the ærarium, or treasury of the state. 1840Bp. A. Jolly Sunday Serv. 310 Abitina, a city in the proconsular province of Africa. 1885T. M. Lindsay Acts II. 44 Later [Cyprus] became imperial and still later again proconsular. Luke is strictly accurate.
Hence proˈconsularship, the position of a proconsular province.
1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 301/1 Augustus raised it [Bithynia] into a proconsularship b.c. 27. |