Procuration

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  • n. The act of procuring; procurement.
  • n. The management of another's affairs.
  • n. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
  • n. A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of procuring; procurement.
  • n. The management of another's affairs.
  • n. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
  • n. A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Care; management.
  • n. The management of another's affairs; the being intrusted with such management.
  • n. A document by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another. See mandate, 4 .
  • n. Eccles.: Formerly, provision of the necessary expenses for visitation, due from a church, monastery, or incumbent, etc., to the bishop or archdeacon upon his visitation.
  • n. In modern usage, the sum of money paid to a bishop or archdeacon as a commutation for the above provision.
  • Word Usage
    "THE office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was trusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people, to which he is obliged by the law of nature, and to render an account thereof to God, the Author of that law, and to none but Him."
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    procurement    proxy    agency    power    getting    bawdry   
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