procuration

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English procuracioun, from Middle French procuration and its etymon Latin prōcūrātiōnem (through Old French procuracion). By surface analysis, procure +‎ -ation; compare procuracy and procuratory.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɒkjʊˈɹeɪʃən/, /ˌpɹɒkjəˈɹeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɑkjəˈɹeɪʃən/

Noun

procuration (countable and uncountable, plural procurations)

1. The act of procuring; procurement.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration

2. The management of another's affairs.
3. (law) The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
4. A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.
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Related terms

• procurator
• procure

Translations

act of procuring

• Spanish: procuración f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “procuration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French procuration, from Old French procuracion, from Latin prōcūrātiōnem; by surface analysis, procurer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.ky.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

procuration f (plural procurations)

1. proxy
2. power of attorney
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     — Je vous remercie, dit la vieille femme. Et elle jeta dans le feu la procuration.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “procuration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012