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‖ locum tenens|ˈləʊkəm ˈtiːnɛnz|
[med.L., = ‘one who holds the place (of another)’, a lieutenant: L. locum, accus. of locus place; tenens, pr. pple. of tenēre to hold.]
a. One who holds office temporarily in place of the person to whom the office belongs, or who undertakes another's professional duties during his absence; a deputy, substitute.
In Great Britain now chiefly applied to the deputy of a medical practitioner or of a clergyman.
[1463Rolls of Parlt. V. 499/1, & dicti Locumtenentis mandato, declarabat, qualiter idem Locumtenens..Parliamentum voluit prorogare.] 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Answ. v. (1653) 22 Leaving Titus as his Locum tenens. 1683in Strype Stowe's Surv. Lond. (1720) II. v. xviii. 391/2 The Lord Maiors Locumtenens. 1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 410 They ordered him to appoint a locum tenens and upon his declining to do so, they required..the three eldest aldermen, one after another, to assume the post. 1764Foote Mayor of G. ii. Wks. 1799 I. 187 D'ye mean..Master Jeremy's deputy?.. Ay, ay, his locum tenens. 1838Lytton Alice iii. ii, The old driveller will be my locum tenens, till years and renown enable me to become his successor. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect I. 326 He not being on the spot, a locum tenens became a necessity.
transf.1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 461 A house wherein Petrarch was born, or perhaps its locum⁓tenens.
attrib.1887Pall Mall G. 16 Nov. 7/1 Dr. S., the locum tenens body physician of his Imperial and Royal Highness. 1889Ibid. 13 Nov. 3/1 Young medical men..who are taking locum tenens work.
b. The post of a locum tenens; a locum-tenency.
1899Lancet 5 Aug. 86/2 (Advt.), Locum Tenens or good Assistantship by doubly-qualified man. 1908A. S. M. Hutchinson Once aboard Lugger vi. vi. §2. 437 There's this locum tenens I was going to take up in the North. |