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proconsulate|prəʊˈkɒnsjʊlət|
[= F. proconsulat (1552 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. prōconsulāt-us: see proconsul and -ate1.]
a. The office of an ancient Roman proconsul; the district under the government of a proconsul.
a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 609 He governed the proconsulate of Asia little to his credit. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. IV. xxxiv. 140 The proconsulate of Syria became the object of every inordinate ambition. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. 413 The Proconsulate of Paullus.
b. transf. Cf. proconsul 1 b.
1796Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 113 Citizen Barthelemi had been established..at Basle; where, with his proconsulate of Switzerland and the adjacent parts of Germany, he was appointed as a sort of factor to deal in the degradation of the crowned heads of Europe. 1933G. Arthur Septuagenarian's Scrap Bk. 243 The soldier whose proconsulate was extended for over two years and who was then wistfully asked if he would not come back again. |