promagisterial

comparative more promagisterial · superlative most promagisterial

1. Of or pertaining to a promagistrate.

   He stayed outside the pomerium, to retain his promagisterial powers: either in expectation of a triumph or to retain his independent command authority in the coming civil war.

   2024 November 1, Wikipedia contributors, “Cicero”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation

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   The real effect of these two changes was not only to alter the constitutional character of the consulship, but to abolish the promagisterial character of the proconsulship, to make it in fact a distinct magistracy, with distinct duties, always provincial of its own, a definite mode of appointment and a fixed duration.

   1893, E.G. Hardy, “Imperium Consulare and Proconsulare”, in The Journal of Philology, volume 21, Macmillan and Company, page 59

   The purpose must have been to provide elected magistrates to govern the two additional provinces acquired in Spain; but the converse of this was that it removed the need to confer promagisterial powers on private individuals, a practice which now ceased.

   1970, A. E. Astin, The Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, page 176