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propræˈtorial, a. [f. prec., after prætorial.] Of or pertaining to a proprætor; under the rule of a proprætor.
1885J. G. Frazer in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 885/1 Thus the distinction between consular (or proconsular) and prætorial (or proprætorial) provinces varied from year to year with the military exigencies of different parts of the empire. So propræˈtorian a., in same sense.
1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1859 X. 228 note, The whole revenues of the proprætorian (or imperatorial) provinces, from this time forward, flowed into the fiscus, or private treasure of the individual emperor. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 23 The proconsular as distinct from the propraetorian status of Cyprus. |