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Example sentences for "procurator"

Lexicographically close words:
procumbent; procurable; procurador; procuradores; procuration; procurators; procure; procured; procurement; procurer
  1. He went to the Philippines, where he labored among the natives for three years, was procurator of his province for four years, minister at Manila for three years, rector of Silang, and after 1659 procurator for the Philippines in Spain.

  2. He ministered in Formosa, and in the Parián of Manila; and was afterward procurator at Madrid and Rome, and visitador to the American provinces.

  3. In consideration of this it is not right to grant the father procurator a hearing.

  4. In the latter year he was chosen procurator to Spain, and the representative of the Philippines to the general chapter of the order to be held in 1627.

  5. He was afterward president of the chapter, definitor of the province, and procurator to Spain with a vote in the general chapter (although he was unable to arrive in Spain in time for the chapter).

  6. He was elected procurator in place of Jacinto de San Fulgencio, and after various setbacks arrived in Mexico in 1657, where he died in December of that same year.

  7. Their place in the imperial provinces was taken by the procurator and his agents, in the senatorial at first by the proconsul assisted by the taxpaying communities themselves and later by imperial officials.

  8. Sardinia was placed under an imperial procurator because of disturbances on the island.

  9. The relation of these coloni to the contractors as well as to the owners of private estates or their bailiffs (vilici), was regulated by an edict of a certain Mancia, apparently a procurator under the Flavians.

  10. Each Order had its procurator in Madrid, who took up the cudgels in defence of his Corporation's interest in the Philippines whenever this was menaced.

  11. After the publication of evidence, the procurator had the right to examine the witnesses.

  12. Holy Synod,” to which, under the supervision of a procurator guarding the rights of the state, he assigned the supreme direction of spiritual and ecclesiastical affairs.

  13. In Württemberg the procurator Hofacker and the librarian Tafel, partly by editions and translations of the writings of Swedenborg, partly by their own writings, were specially zealous in vindicating and spreading their views.

  14. Specially active in this work was Count Tolstoi, minister of instruction and also procurator of the holy synod.

  15. The Roman procurator might have expressed such a sentiment, for according to Roman law and ethics an individual could be sacrificed for the welfare of the state.

  16. Referring to Pontius Pilate's predecessor, Gratus, who was procurator of Judea from 15 to 26 A.

  17. They agree that he was crucified during the time that Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea, and Joseph Caiaphas was high priest of the Jews.

  18. Procurator were in no wise affected by the fact that the friend of Jesus, who anxiously awaited his answer, was a man of influence and of wealth.

  19. Galilee was always a hotbed of seditious enthusiasm against the rule of Rome; and high priest and procurator alike had need to keep a sharp eye upon natives of that district.

  20. Footnote 172: The Procurator of a Province was the Imperial Finance Administrator.

  21. The procurator frowned at her contradictions.

  22. With the triumphant air of a sportsman who has landed his fish after a long and bitter struggle, the procurator held out a sheet of paper prepared beforehand, on which something was written in Japanese characters.

  23. The procurator was annoyed at Asako's refusal to speak in Japanese.

  24. Assuredly," he said, "the opinion of the procurator is always correct.

  25. Great imperial schools were organised on the strictest military principles, and were under the command of a procurator who had often held high office in the provinces or the army.

  26. His father was probably a Roman Eques, procurator in Belgium; Plin.

  27. In one of the forest cantons of the Alps a procurator of the imperial estates inscribed his gratitude in a pretty set of verses to the god of the wilds, whose image was enshrined in the fork of a sacred ash.

  28. Jerome, the foppish procurator of the great lady was a dangerous and suspected person,(520) and not always without good cause.

  29. And on rural estates, down to the end of the Western Empire, the villicus or procurator was nearly always a man of servile origin.

  30. Then came ambassadors from Lucius Tiberius, Procurator under Leo, Emperor of Rome, demanding tribute.

  31. After that he returned to Rome a second time as definitor-general, whence he went to Mexico, where he exercised the duties of procurator in 1608.

  32. In May, 1595, he was chosen sub-prior and procurator of Manila, and in June definitor and discreto [i.

  33. The fiscal asks that the procurator be sworn.

  34. It was possibly in consequence of such cases and of other impediments to the defence, that the Suprema issued a provision that all prisoners should be allowed to take a procurator and advocate, provided they were fitting persons.

  35. Simultaneously with the development of restrictions on the advocate, the disappearance of the procurator completed the system of enabling the inquisitor to control the defence as well as the prosecution.

  36. One of the latest references to the procurator is a regulation of 1545, which infers that, if the accused made application, the tribunal would grant him one, with the reservation that this did not entitle the kindred to aid in the defence.

  37. In the year 1614 he was sent to Espana as procurator of the province, but died on the voyage to Mexico.

  38. He was accordingly asked to return and begin his labors anew by embarking for Espana, where he was to act as the procurator of this province in all matters, and was especially to provide them with religious.

  39. For other reasons added to this, he took from him his authority as procurator of this province and commanded him to have no more to do with matters of the Indias.

  40. Aduarte] went back thither, father Fray Angel undertook the very useful duty of conducting them to the Philippinas, in order that the former might fulfil his office as procurator of the province.

  41. An opportunity being afterwards offered for religious to come to this province, he strove to go as their superior, carefully hiding his purpose from the procurator of this province.

  42. It was as dark as the inside of a barrel, and the assistant procurator had to feel his way.

  43. There was nothing left for the assistant procurator but to acknowledge himself in the wrong and go back to his spouse.

  44. And the deputy procurator began teasing his wife.

  45. And, by the way, I'll show you the photograph of the procurator of the Palace of Justice.

  46. The assistant procurator went up to the bedstead and sat down on the edge of it.

  47. The deputy procurator looked down at himself, and gasped.

  48. The assistant procurator slowly got up and sat on the bed, filling the air with loud yawns.

  49. And now Hugh is made, wincingly, the procurator or bursar of the Grande Chartreuse, after he has spent eight years there, and is plunged in a sea of worldly business.

  50. The procurator was keen and accurate in his work.

  51. The Procurator brought his niece (who is at the head of his family) to wait on me; and they invited me to reside with them at their palace on the Brent, but I did not think it proper to accept of it.

  52. If he thinks that he has a larger sum to receive than I offer, why does he not name a procurator to examine me?

  53. I shall see it at the Procurator Grimani's, where there will be a great entertainment that day.

  54. Order should inhere in the Roman Church and no procurator act in its name.

  55. And for a procurator to punish a zealot caught red-handed was to raise a riot or an insurrection.

  56. As well had Pilate and I been known to each other before ever he journeyed out to be procurator over the Semitic volcano of Jerusalem.

  57. Coponius, procurator fourth before Pilate, had a pretty time crushing the Gaulonite sedition which arose in this fashion and spread down from Gamala.

  58. In vast multitudes they gathered at Cæsarea, and petitioned the procurator that the standards and other images be removed from Jerusalem.

  59. He was the emperor's representative, the imperial procurator with power to crucify or to save; officially he was an autocrat.

  60. Herod I, the son of Antipater, was early given office by his father, who had been made procurator of Judea.

  61. It was Mr. Graham himself who had been the first to put the Procurator Fiscal in possession of the fact that the accused had written to David from London, breaking off her engagement.

  62. Already all Scotch and English papers had mysteriously hinted at 'startling information' obtained by the Procurator Fiscal, and at an 'impending sensational arrest.

  63. The duties of the procurator were primarily to maintain order, to direct the collection of taxes, and decide the more important legal questions.

  64. As a reward for his services Antipater was made procurator of Judea.

  65. Inasmuch as Judea was one of the border provinces and had repeatedly proved itself turbulent and rebellious, it was placed under the immediate direction of the emperor and was ruled by a procurator of equestrian rank.

  66. Justin's statement involves the position that at one and the same time Herod was the King, and Cyrenius the Roman Procurator of Judsea.

  67. This subjection, however, is afterward greatly modified and lessened by decrees secured (1688) by the procurator of the province at Rome, Fray Alvaro de Benavente.

  68. Fray Alvaro de Benavente is sent to Rome as procurator of the province.

  69. Jose Duque is elected provincial at this time; he sends a procurator to Europe for more missionaries, a band of whom arrive in 1679.

  70. Consider the manner in which the religious had to apply to his tribunal; in no case would he accept a document save through the hand of the ecclesiastical procurator of his secular court.

  71. He taught theology in the convent of Santo Tomas in Manila, and went to Espana and Roma as procurator of the province, returning as consecrated bishop of Cebu in the year 1666.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "procurator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advocate; agent; alternate; backup; bailiff; barrister; butler; champion; counsel; counselor; curator; custodian; deputy; dummy; exponent; factor; figurehead; guardian; housekeeper; intercessor; librarian; lieutenant; majordomo; mouthpiece; pleader; procurator; proxy; representative; secondary; solicitor; steward; substitute; surrogate; understudy; vicar; vice