prolocutor
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English
Etymology
From Latin pro (“before”) + locūtus (“having spoken”).
Noun
prolocutor (plural prolocutors)
- A spokesman, one who speaks on behalf of others.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods,
Could vſe perſwaſions more pathetical.
- A chairman of the lower house of a convocation in the Anglican Church.