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  • noun Same as prothonotary.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of prothonotary.

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Examples

  • Hapsburg, with the ruler's strong memory, recalled the protonotary's plea and referred Herr Berthold to the answer the former had received, remarking, less graciously than usual, that the imperial magistrate ought to know that he would be the last to assail the privileges which he had himself bestowed upon the city.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 08 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Hapsburg, with the ruler's strong memory, recalled the protonotary's plea and referred Herr Berthold to the answer the former had received, remarking, less graciously than usual, that the imperial magistrate ought to know that he would be the last to assail the privileges which he had himself bestowed upon the city.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • When soon after Herr Pfinzing availed himself of a report which he had to deliver to the Emperor to intercede himself for the valiant fellow, the Hapsburg, with the ruler's strong memory, recalled the protonotary's plea and referred Herr Berthold to the answer the former had received, remarking, less graciously than usual, that the imperial magistrate ought to know that he would be the last to assail the privileges which he had himself bestowed upon the city.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • He became a very successful and wealthy member of the Curia, first as a registrar of supplications and later as a papal protonotary

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • He became a very successful and wealthy member of the Curia, first as a registrar of supplications and later as a papal protonotary

    The Pier of Goritz 2009

  • Cajetan, a co-founder of the Theatines, received the office of protonotary at Rome from Pope Julius II when still quite young.

    Optional Memorial of St. Cajetan, confessor Argent 2006

  • This poem was afterwards expanded, shedding its relative pronouns, to 48 lines divided among three speakers, ‘an Angel, the protonotary Theophilus, (and) a Catechumen’: the grace and charm of original lost: —there is an autograph in A and other copies exist.

    Notes 1918

  • My mother wanted to make me an officer, my father a subdeacon, my aunt a criminal councillor, my grandmother a protonotary, but I made myself a Vagabond.

    III. Vive la Joie!. Book X 1917

  • When the Emperor Otho I illegally brought about the deposition of the unworthy Pope John XII (Nov., 963), he equally illegally caused to be elected, to fill his place, a layman, "Leo, the venerable protonotary".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1608 he was canon, censor, and theologian of the church of Antwerp; in 1614 he was made protonotary.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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