Procurator vs Plenipotentiary - What's the difference?
procurator | plenipotentiary |
A tax collector.
An agent or attorney.
A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see (public procurator)
(lb) The governor of a small imperial province.
A person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter
Invested with full power.
Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent
As nouns the difference between procurator and plenipotentiary
is that procurator is a tax collector while plenipotentiary is a person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.As an adjective plenipotentiary is
invested with full power.procurator
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Alternative forms
* procuratour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)See also
* (legal) inquisitorReferences
* OED2 ----plenipotentiary
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(wikipedia plenipotentiary)Noun
(plenipotentiaries)- 1985': Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah '''plenipotentiary . — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked
