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Definition of Prolocutor

Prolocutor
Prolocutor Prol`o*cu"tor, n. [L., from proloqui, p. p. prolocutus, to speak out; pro for + loqui to speak.] 1. One who speaks for another. --Jeffrey. 2. The presiding officer of a convocation. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Prolocutor from wikipedia

- A prolocutor is a chairman of some ecclesiastical ****emblies in Anglicanism. In the Church of England, the Prolocutor is chair of the lower house of the...
- 1377, the Speaker was referred to by terms such as the parlour and the prolocutor. Some of them presided, and Peter de Montfort and Peter de la Mare were...
- first person recorded as having presided over Parliament as a parlour or prolocutor, an office now known as Speaker of the House of Commons. He was one of...
- that I may in this case glorify God by that kind of death'; to which the prolocutor replied, 'If you go to heaven in this faith, then I will never come hither...
- formally known as the Speaker, having previously been referred to as the prolocutor or parlour (a semi-official position, often nominated by the monarch,...
- in a Paper Lately Published, Intituled, A Letter to the Reverend the Prolocutor: Being an Answer to a Paper, &c. By the Author of that Letter at Google...
- tolls". In 1624, he became vicar of St Dunstan-in-the-West, and in 1625 a prolocutor to Charles I. He earned a re****tion as an eloquent preacher. 160 of his...
- and France. Foxe served as the king's almoner c. 1532 – 1537, and as prolocutor of convocation in April 1533 when it decided against the validity of Henry's...
- presiding officer of the House of Commons was initially known as the "Prolocutor" and sometimes as the Parlour, but the term most often used was "Speaker"...
- 1363, and, usually after 1368, by the lord chancellor who was then the prolocutor, or chairman of the House of Lords. It was given on his[clarification...