एक आधुनिक कॉलोनी में एक अधिकारी जिसकी काफी प्रशासनिक शक्ति है

Noun:

(रोम साम्राज्‍य के समय में) सेनेटयुक्‍त प्रांत का शासक, परवर्ती गणतंत्र के समय में रोमन प्रांत का शासक जो समानयतया पहले दूत रह चुका होता था, प्रशासक,

proconsul's Usage Examples:

The proconsul of Africa, in fact, had command of the legio III.

In the partition of the government of the provinces of the Roman empire between the senate and the emperor, Africa fell to the senate, and was henceforth administered by a proconsul.

Trajan emphasized at once his personal control and the constitutionality of his sway by bearing on his campaigns the actual title of "proconsul," which no other emperor had done.

37 Caligula deprived the proconsul of his military powers and gave them to the imperial legate (legatus Augusti pro praetore provinciae Africae), who was nominated directly by the emperor, and whose special duty it was to guard the frontier zone (Tacitus, Hist.

Caecilius Metellus was proconsul and earned a triumph after two years' fighting: but even in the time of Strabo there was considerable brigandage.

When they next demanded that their victim should be burned, the proconsul did not interfere.

The powers of the proconsul, however, extended scarcely beyond the ancient Africa Vetus and the towns on the littoral.

St Boniface has well been called the proconsul of the papacy.

In 55 Auletes was restored by the proconsul of Syria, Aulus Gabinius.

He was subsequently appointed proconsul of Asia or Syria, but nothing further is known of his life.

proconsul's Meaning':

an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power

Synonyms:

functionary, official,

Antonyms:

unauthorized, unofficial, unestablished,