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ˈprovosty rare. Now only Hist.
[a. OF. provosté (13th c. in Godef. Compl.), var. of prevosté, mod.F. prévôté: = med.L. præpositātus; also repr. OF. provostie (15th c. in Godef.), MLG. prōvestîe, MG. probistîe, G. prostei, propstei, Du. proosdij: see -y.]
= provostship, in various senses; esp. (= F. prévôté) the jurisdiction of the prévôt de Paris, the supreme officer of the Châtelet, and that of the prévôt de l'Île de France, the chief officer who had charge of the safety of the highways of Paris and its environs.
c1483Caxton Dialogues 30 Benet the chorle Is lieutenant Of the baylly of amyas And of the prouostye [de la prevostie]. 1483― Gold. Leg. 289 b/2 Phelyp hadde taken of the Senate the prouostye of Allexandrye. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 375 The prouosty, or chief rule or offyce, was in y⊇ handes of the cytezeyns of Parys. 1670Cotton Espernon i. ii. 68 One Nicholas Poulin, a Lieutenant in the Provosty of the Isle of France. 1849Schoberl tr. Hugo's Hunchback 154 Robert d'Estouteville, knight..keeper of the provosty of Paris [garde de la prévôté de Paris]. |