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To promulgate; to announce ; to publish, by governmental authority, intelligence of public acts or transactions or other matters Important to be known by the people. … [Read more...] about PROCLAIM

The old name for church-wardens. Paroch. Antiq. 562. … [Read more...] about PROCURATORES ECCLESIAE PAROCHIALISM

(A) evidence. The act of causing some state matters to be published or made generally known. A written or printed document in which are contained such matters, issued by proper authority; as the president's proclamation, the governor's, the mayor's proclamation. The word proclamation is also used to express the public nomination made of any one to a high office; as, such a … [Read more...] about PROCLAMATION

The proxy or instrument by which a proctor is constituted and appointed. … [Read more...] about PROCURATORIUM

Eng. law. On awarding an exigent, in order to outlawry, a writ of proclamation issues to the sheriff of the county where the party dwells, to make three proclamations for the defendant to yield himself, or be outlawed. … [Read more...] about PROCLAMATION OF EXIGENTS