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provosterie (1212)

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provosterie (1212)

prevosterie,  provostrie  
  FEW:  praepositus 9,302b Gdf:  prevosterie 6,403c GdfC: TL: prevosterie 7,1837 DEAF:  prevost (prevosterie)  DMF: TLF: OED:  provostry n.  MED:  provosterie n.  DMLBS:  provostria 2551a

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1hist.praetorship, Roman prefecture
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Gardeins de la provosterie D’iceste romeine cité  19392
praetorian gate
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  la porte ke est apelé provosterie (Latin: praetoria) deit estre vers l’est  27.5
2provostship, area under the jurisdiction of a provost
( c.1270; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  nul provost ne doyt rendre acounte [...] fors de ceo qe touche sa provosterie  278.c44
( 1292 )  abatent et tolent as ditz citezeyns les corrections des trespas qe sount annex a lour provosterie, q’il tienent par grevouse et chargeaunte rente de nostre seignur, le roi, a lor tres grauntz damages  204
eccl.office, benefice of ecclesiastical provost
( 1321-22 )  des aunciens aumosnes issauntz de la provostrie de Leycestre  i 390

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See also:

provost  provosté  provoster  provostur  provosture 
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