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propr.

abbreviation for

  1. proprietor.


propr

abbreviation for

  1. proprietor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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This is what a striped shirt should look like: Geoff Ogilvy in Propr gear!

Propr�tor, Propretor, prō-prē′tor, n. a magistrate of ancient Rome, who, after acting as pr�tor in Rome, was appointed to the government of a province.

Having obtained a Propr�torship in Africa, he followed up his career of private swindling, by the wholesale practice of public robbery.

This weakness is the object of the poet's wit in the following passage, in which he tells how Sc�vola, the propr�tor of Asia, once "took down" the silly Albucius in Athens: A Greek, Albucius, you would be called, and not a Roman and a Sabine, a fellow-townsman of Pontius and Tritanius, though they are both illustrious men, and first-rate standard-bearers.

In 62 B. C. he went to Spain as Propr�tor, intending to write a book about the Spanish people and their customs as soon as he got back, but he was so busy on his return that he did not have time to do so.

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