Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a proconsul or his position or authority: as, proconsular rule.
- Under the government of a proconsul: as, a proconsular province.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining of a proconsul.
- adjective Under the government of a proconsul.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
proconsul , or the office thereof.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or typical of a proconsul
Etymologies
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Examples
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As best we can reconstruct it, the Senate and People of Rome agreed to award Crassus a special command against Spartacus, with virtually unlimited power what the Romans called proconsular imperium, even though he was a private citizen.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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As best we can reconstruct it, the Senate and People of Rome agreed to award Crassus a special command against Spartacus, with virtually unlimited power what the Romans called proconsular imperium, even though he was a private citizen.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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As best we can reconstruct it, the Senate and People of Rome agreed to award Crassus a special command against Spartacus, with virtually unlimited power what the Romans called proconsular imperium, even though he was a private citizen.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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As best we can reconstruct it, the Senate and People of Rome agreed to award Crassus a special command against Spartacus, with virtually unlimited power what the Romans called proconsular imperium, even though he was a private citizen.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Suleimani's networks of agents, collaborators, military advisers, client militias, and secret informers give him a degree of power that is difficult to gauge, but it often seems proconsular: "I, Qassem Suleimani," his text read, like an emperor's decree.
The Sandman Cometh 2010
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Germanicus enjoyed a meteoric rise through the political and military ranks, earning appointment to the consulship in AD 12 at the precocious age of twenty-six and subsequently the proconsular command of legions stationed in Gaul and Germany.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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The British proconsular class were for the most part not Orientalists at all.
East is East 2007
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The British proconsular class were for the most part not Orientalists at all.
East is East 2007
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The British proconsular class were for the most part not Orientalists at all.
East is East 2007
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To think that this unhappy boy should have been so corrupted by you as to read aloud in the proconsular court, before a man of such lofty character as Claudius Maximus, a letter from his mother, which he chooses to regard as amatory, and in the presence of the statues of the emperor Pius to accuse his mother of yielding to a shameful passion and reproach her with her amours?
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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